Archaeologist Julia Wihlborg suggested that the sword and shield of the Hårby Valkyrie may represent a woman who had manly qualities or who became a man, raising the question of whether female ...

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

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett from Lund University in Sweden has spent three years retracing the voyages of Vikings, uncovering ...

The festival features Viking-age crafts, costumes, weapons, mock battles, music, a replica Viking boat, and games. The event strives to be authentic to the Viking age with the slogan ...

Those two small chunks of metal turned out to be part of a massive Viking Age sword. The sword is "of a rare type, known from Scandinavia but also found in Western Europe (in the areas known today ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where ...

BAR, Montenegro, July 25 (Reuters) - A replica Viking ship has berthed in ... of the war (in Ukraine)," Sten Vagnes said. The Viking age, spanning the 8th to 11th centuries AD, saw Norsemen ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A strong wave was likely responsible for the capsizing of a Viking ship replica earlier this week off Norway's coast that killed a U.S. citizen, police said Thursday ...

Bristling with spears and swords, Viking and Slav reenactors face off in a mock battle during a festival in Wolin, Poland. What began as small raiding parties early in the Viking age grew into ...