Archaeologist Greer Jarrett spent three years piloting a small sailboat along the coast of Norway to understand Viking trade ...

On a foggy morning off Norway’s craggy coast, a square-rigged clinker boat—a descendant of Viking craft—glided between ...

Since 2022, Jarrett and his intrepid crews have navigated multiple voyages aboard an open, square-rigged clinker boat built ...

Despite the boat’s lack of a deep keel, it proved stable even in rough waters. Jarrett noted that sailing near land—through ...

In his latest study, he has found evidence of a decentralized network of ports, located on islands and peninsulas, which probably played a central role in trade and travel in the Viking era.

A new analysis of ancient walrus-ivory ... so sure that this scene of peaceful trade between two so dissimilar cultures is correct? How do they know the Vikings didn’t just hunt the walruses ...

(The graves of ‘woman warriors’ are changing what we know about ancient gender roles ... linked the woman to the lucrative Viking trade in the East. And an analysis of the clothing fragments ...

The Viking age, spanning the 8th to 11th centuries AD, saw Norsemen journey from Scandinavia aboard timber longships to stage raids, trade and settle across a wide region, including North America ...