“In many respects the Vikings were the medieval equivalent of organized crime,” says Simon Keynes, a professor of Anglo-Saxon history at Cambridge University. “They engaged in extortion on a ...

In general, apart from stone sculptures and place names, the Vikings have left us little record of their 250-year moment on the stage of English history, roughly from the end of the 8th century to ...

Öland was once a key trading post for Sweden, especially during the Viking age. The country’s second-largest island sits off the southeast coast of the mainland, surrounded by the Baltic Sea. It was ...

Vikings is a modern name given to the seafaring people primarily ... Lock out the hips without sending the weight back and ...

They read a research article based on the examination of a large number of teeth from the Viking Age town of Varnhem. The ...

When you imagine a Viking, chances are you picture broad shoulders, iron grips, and… beards. But what did it actually take to build a viking body worthy of raiding and conquering? Unlike the ...