Leading the West Saxon forces was King Æthelred, and his younger brother, the future Alfred the Great. That year, the Danes ...

Norway, Sweden, and Ukraine play central roles in the saga, illustrating the power struggles and alliances that define Viking ...

Ask the children to highlight the Viking place names on a local or regional map and begin to plot the ... This clip is suitable for teaching History at KS2 and KS3 in England, Second Level ...

As history shows. VIKING:Stop. NEIL OLIVER:'As well as exploring ... This is from the series Vikings. Children could use maps to find out where the Vikings came from and where they travelled ...

5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new ...