The Vikings built fast ‘dragon-ships’ and ‘long ships’ for raiding and war. They also had slower passenger and cargo ships called ‘knorrs’. They built smaller boats too ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

Photograph by GABRIEL HILDEBRAND-SWEDISH HISTORY MUSEUM/CC BY (SWORD ... OFF IN AN EPIC BATTLECharge into the fray of an epic Viking battle with over 600 hardcore reenactors armed with swords ...

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Since this century began, Vikings have been the subject of countless historical documentaries, multiple streaming series and ...

On this day in 2024, it was reported that Viking horns had sounded in the centre of York as the year's Jorvik Viking Festival built to its climax.

Vikings first invaded Ireland in 795 AD, and the rest is history! Many of us are aware of the history of the Norsemen’s battles and plundering in Ireland but little is spoken of the positive ...

Following is a transcript of the video. - [Rollo yells] Tyr Neilsen: Rollo's using a Viking battle-ax. You can turn, you can pull, and if it's used against an opponent's legs, it can be pulled up.

Constantine mac Áed (Constantine II), the grandson of Kenneth MacAlpin, began his life as an exile. In 878 AD his father, Áed, had been slain by a Giric, son of Dungal, and Constantine, a young boy at ...