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 ...

For his Eagle Scout project, Longo, a West senior, presented eight handmade Viking replica shields to the museum’s Viking’s Voyage exhibit. Longo’s project culminated 437 hours of labor by ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Last year, the discovery of an ax head on a mountaintop overlooking Norway’s Trondheim Fjord led archaeologists to a tenth-century Viking grave. Though they found no remains, the team recovered ...

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 illustrates the futility of passive shield use and suggests that they didn ... Larsen is the chief investigator at the Trelleborg Viking castle, part of the National Museum of Denmark. She and ...

But as the owner could not hold a shield at the same time ... Eriksson's arrival in North America. The British Museum. Important collections of Viking material, as well as displays relating ...

Swedish authorities have announced the first Viking boat grave discoveries in ... Personal items including a sword, spear, shield, and an ornate comb were also in the grave.

Viking Ship Museum is located at Bygdoy island in Oslo ... marvellously preserved. On display are shields and weapons, kitchen tools and elaborate jewellery, wooden boxes and even leather and ...