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 ...

Did Vikings visit America in the distant past, leaving evidence by carving runes on a massive stone in eastern Oklahoma? It's still a mystery.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Mysterious medieval stone disks unearthed in Ukraine were likely used by the Vikings as solar compasses to navigate the seas, ...

site of a stone church built in the 11th century and one of the earliest Christian settlements in the country. The remains of the Varnhem Vikings, who largely lived in nearby farm-based ...

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 ...

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 ...

Their only chance of survival is to find a path to the Viking settlement, Danelagh, traversing an unfamiliar and hostile land they have never known. The journey becomes a race for their lives when ...

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 ...