On a remote island in northern Norway, metal detectorists stumbled upon a pair of bronze treasures. The small artifacts ...

Jan Bill, the curator of the Viking Ship Collection at the University of Oslo's Museum of Cultural History, who wasn't involved in the study but is conducting separate research on the shields ...

Her head rested on a shield, a bridled horse ... and well-worn weapons on display at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Norway, until Nov. 22. "Viking Warrior Woman" first aired on Nov ...

The Oseberg tapestry is in the collection of the Museum of the Viking Age in Oslo. Experts continue to study the numerous ...

In 1874, the Bergen Museum on Norway’s southwestern coast ... the archaeologist was less accurate. The number of Viking shields Lorange lists is wrong and he fails to mention the ship’s ...

In Birka, Sweden, there is a roughly 1,000-year-old Viking burial teeming with lethal weapons — a sword, an ax-head, spears, knives, shields and a quiver of arrows ... and senior researcher at ...

Saturday's activities at the Higgins Armory Museum include workshops on how to make your own Viking shield, the role of women in Norse society and Viking combat techniques. Through drills ...

"We haven't opened a Viking ... Of Skjold (shield) bulges were 26—of Swords 2—an axe and many arrows—in addition to many other Old Saws. The find is handed over to Bergens Museum." ...

Where it is from: Village of Hårby, Funen Island, Denmark When it was made: Around A.D. 800 (Early Viking Age ... currently on display at the National Museum of Denmark. The tiny female figurine ...

“This is yet another shift away from the image of unsophisticated barbaric Vikings swinging their swords around,” said Mads Dengsø Jessen, a senior researcher with the National Museum in ...

Silver was the Viking Age’s measure of value. It served as a means of payment and transaction, and to demonstrate “the owner’s financial ability,” according to the museum.