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

A stunning archaeological discovery in Norway sheds light on the status and influence of women during the Viking Age. The ...

The Viking age, says Price, “is not for the squeamish ... Photograph by ROBERT CLARK-PHOTOGRAPHED AT VIKING SHIP MUSEUM, MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO Around 750 a band ...

In Viking Age mass graves in Britain ... analysis method that would provide a sharper lens for fine-scale genetic history. Questions that wouldn't have been possible to answer before are now ...

highlighting the rich history of the Viking Age in Scandinavia. Yet, just across the border in Sweden, there’s a treasure trove of Norse history already visible and accessible, offering a ...

Isn’t history great? Oh, you look like you need ... The Vikings themselves did not leave a written record during the Viking Age (AD700-1100) but Vikings did use runes. There is writing from ...

Every fourth inhabitant of Norway was a slave, or thrall, in the Viking Age, according to Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, a professor at the University of Oslo. These were women and men who had been captured by ...

At Fröjel, a Viking Age site on the west coast of Gotland ... (Photo by: Ny Björn Gustafsson/The Swedish History Museum) Traces of lead and other impurities were found embedded in pieces ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... of research hinting at the cosmopolitan nature of Viking Age trade, including recent studies revealing extensive ...