If you visit Scandinavia, you are likely to find yourself at an exhibition about Vikings. There are many to choose from.

Once the capital of a Norse kingdom, this walled northern city is now home to an immersive Viking history museum, archaeological sites and street names that still echo its Scandinavian roots. Few ...

“For this next part, everyone is going to need an axe.” One at a time, 12 undergraduate students chose a blade from the toolbox in a studio at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, a city about ...

A replica of the Oseberg ship, which was discovered in Vestfold, Norway. The Viking Age is arguably the most storied part of Norway’s history, and there are few better places to see it than the county ...

Every year, on the first Sunday in August, the replica of an 11th-century Viking longboat sails up the river Ulla to the town of Catoira in northern Spain. The boat, manned by townsfolk disguised as ...

Cutting-edge DNA sequencing of more than 400 Viking skeletons from across Europe and Greenland will rewrite the history books debunking our previous image of these invaders, pirates, and warriors.

Vikings are often depicted as warmongering seafarers from Scandinavia, men who set out on expeditions to plunder distant lands. The lives of women of the Viking age factor less into the fantasy; many ...