Hårby Valkyrie: A 1,200-year-old gold Viking Age woman sporting a sword, shield and ponytail The Vikings wore helmets with ...

Read more: Rick Steves' Most And Least Favorite Places In Europe Visiting Njardarheimr is a chance to immerse yourself in the real Viking experience. The village is a piece of living history ...

5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new ...

Wren goes to the Museum of South Australia, which is hosting a hoard of Viking treasure! It’s the first time that the collection has travelled outside of the UK and curators say it’s a good chance for ...

Want to "walk" through a real Viking village? The sequences below from the NOVA film "The Vikings" offer a fascinating and unprecedented look at Birka, a medieval Viking village that archeologists ...

Historian William R. Short rates Viking battle scenes in "The Northman," "Thor," and "How to Train Your Dragon." ...

One of the organisers says the appeal of Viking history is "universally popular ... decade Visitors can discover what life was like in a real Viking encampment, learn about their diet and watch ...

As history shows. VIKING:Stop. NEIL OLIVER:'As well as exploring and traveling along the rivers, east across Russia, the Vikings also explored new lands far to the West, across the vast North ...