Tusker Rock, an island in the Bristol Channel just off the coast at Ogmore-by-Sea, took its name from Tuska, a Danish Viking ...

The 1960 discovery of a Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada, caused a sensation, proving the sagas were not just fiction. Vikings had indeed reached the coast of ...

Bjarni EinarssonA Viking settlement dating back to 800 AD has rewritten the historical timeline of the ancient seafarers. Researchers are stunned by the recent discovery of a pair of Viking ...

Only ruins of the settlement remain today, including longhouses, a church and what archaeologists believe was a sauna. Students could study photographs and an aerial view of another Viking ...

Why was the Brough of Birsay, on the north west coast of the mainland of Orkney, Scotland, chosen as a settlement by the Norse? It was in a very defensible position surrounded almost entirely by ...

From that day the Viking settlement became a target and skirmishes between the two groups didn't abate until the Vikings finally left. It would be five centuries before the next European visitor ...

From their mastery of the seas to their influence over lands as far from home as Russia and North America, the Scandinavian raiders known as the Vikings shaped the world for centuries. Swift and ...

Those behind proposals for an educational Viking settlement on the Isle of Man have been granted a further three years to progress the project. Plans for the development at Kattegat on Jurby Road ...

They colonized Iceland and Greenland, and even crossed the Atlantic, establishing a settlement in the northern reaches of Newfoundland. But these were primarily the exploits of Vikings from Norway ...

is your chance to prove yourself as the leader and founder of a Viking settlement. The very survival of your village will depend on your ability to hunt, roam and rule. Viking Dynasty, coming next ...