Archaeologists in Iceland have discovered what may be a rare Viking Age toy carved out of stone, but it's anyone's guess as to which animal it depicts. The figurine, which experts dated to between ...

The Vikings traded all over Europe and as far east as Central Asia. While large, narrow longboats were used for raiding, the Vikings used smaller, broader boats called knorrs for trading.

It was five days before Christmas, and in the hut on the north flank of Eyjafjallajökull, the volcano that grounded airplanes all over Europe in ... looked like when the Vikings arrived ...