Il la baptise Islande, la terre de glace et s’y installe avec ses troupes. Le début de la colonisation par les vikings de ce pays de tous les extrêmes. Douze siècles plus tard, ils sont ...

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 ...

Sweden’s second-largest island. At first, he thought the circular object—found lying on the ground near a construction ...

Jusqu’au XIIe siècle, les Vikings étaient peu nombreux et consommaient tout ... A partir du XXe siècle, les captures s’envolent avec 350 000 tonnes pêchées par an en moyenne en Islande, contre 50 000 ...

Now that we are officially entering spring, there has never been a better time to plan a one-of-a-kind Scottish staycation. If there is somewhere in Scotland that you have always wanted to visit ...

Only three iron Viking bracelets are among over 1,000 preserved in the National Historical Museum, making this find particularly valuable.

The idyllic yet remote island comes with the remains of two houses and one incomplete property, giving the new owner the ...

Quite a few stones that look like penises, so-called phallic stones, have been found. Now archaeologists believe they have ...

In 793, Norse raiders stormed the holy island of Lindisfarne - burning, killing, and looting. It wasn’t the first raid on England, but it marked the brutal birth of the Viking Age.