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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...