Later that evening, as revelers kick up their heels at parties, I marvel at the power the Vikings still hold over our imaginations. Dead and gone for centuries, these medieval seafarers and ...

Viking females, unlike most other Medieval women, did have some say over their own life and destiny.

They were kept in storage for more than 100 years, dismissed as typical examples of Viking Age funeral clothes. But a new investigation into the garments - found in 9th and 10th Century graves ...

Most of the combs were made from red deer antler, although some were made from bone An unearthed collection of Viking combs is ... centre of a developing early medieval world for one particular ...

Far better contemporary sources from the later Viking Age are available to document the activities of men and their uses of ships from c.950-1100, and Judith Jesch undertakes in this book the first ...

Want a powerful moment caught on camera? Try on for size the entire Minnesota Vikings locker room bouncing to 50 Cent's "Many ...

Archaeologists have made a landmark discovery that could hold important clues to the Viking era: a burial ground containing some 50 "exceptionally well-preserved" skeletons.

How many Vikings did you dig up in the last year? Zero? Well, archaeologists working with Denmark’s Museum Odense found more than 50 viking graves in just six months. Pretty, pretty, pretty ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...