Viking experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester have examined pregnancy in the Viking Age and discovered ...

The study also hinted at the grim reality of life for many newborn infants arriving into the world during the Viking Age.

New research is finding that some women in Viking Age Scandinavia were buried with war-grade weapons. Experts are divided ...

All that you've heard about the Vikings may not be true.

A study of more than 3,000 genomes has traced a gene mutation that confers HIV resistance to a person who lived near the Black Sea around 7000 B.C.

If a Viking Age sword was the only item recovered, for example, it was nearly always assumed to be a male grave. So it's possible archaeologists may be systematically undercounting Viking women ...

In this course, we will discuss several important topics pertaining to the Viking Age, namely Viking Age political and material culture, religious transformation, social relations, trade and ...

This advanced course covers the runic inscriptions from the Migration Period and the Viking Age. In addition to close study of runic writing, there is also focus on particular issues of the period.

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Who are the main Norse gods? The Vikings of the Scandinavian north worshipped the many gods and goddesses of Norse mythology. Thanks to surviving ancient texts, sagas and archaeological discoveries we ...