Inspired by the Assassin's Creed Valhalla game, I created a Viking round shield in my own style using plywood as the main body. The design features scratched lines for an authentic look.

Here’s how it works. Dozens of Viking round shields from a famous ship burial unearthed in Norway were not strictly ceremonial as long thought; instead they may have protected warriors in battle ...

Shields used more actively than previously thought Warming produced a Viking shield known as a “round shield” for the experiment. The design was based on various archaeological discoveries throughout ...

Danish archaeologists say they have found a well-preserved Viking shield that is more than 1,000 years old. Archaeologist Kirsten Christensen says the wooden shield has a diameter of 32 inches.

Russell is a Science Writer with IFLScience and has a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology.

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 ...

Some chieftains wore mail coats, made of thousands of metal rings but most relied on a round wooden shield for protection ... But it was not long before larger Viking armies attacked ...

That Viking, who lived and died around the year 900, was first excavated from a farm in Solør, Norway, in 1900. Her head rested on a shield, a bridled horse skeleton lay curled at her feet ...