Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

For hundreds of years, Vikings were the masters of the seas, controlling the northern Atlantic and venturing as far as North America and the Middle East. From about 900 to 1,200 CE, these explorers ...

Roughly a thousand years ago, a young man in his early 20s met a violent end in England. Eight hundred kilometers (500 miles) away, in Denmark, an older man who had survived a lifetime of battles died ...

Some Vikings may have died from now-extinct strains of one of humankind’s deadliest pathogens: smallpox. Researchers collected DNA from viruses in the remains of northern Europeans living during the ...

Virtually every spring, they would launch a new military campaign, so each surviving soldier was expected to fight in many different wars throughout their careers. But as the ancient texts analyzed by ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Assassin's Creed Valhalla has been announced, featuring a new story revolving around Vikings. The series is known for its accurate depictions of ...