A rumor has spread online for years that Vikings believed a goat whose udders produced an endless supply of beer awaited them ...

The Viking Age saw the pillaging of the British Isles, France, and the Mediterranean until inequality, Christianity, and sex ...

A famed Viking-age silver hoard discovered in Scotland may have belonged to an entire community of people, rather than one ...

Discovered in 2014 near Kirkcudbright, the Galloway Hoard became one of the UK’s most significant archaeological finds of the ...

A newly translated runic inscription has shed light on the Galloway Hoard, considered to be one of the richest collections of ...

Viking society was also a culture of violence ... Matthew Gabriele is a professor of medieval studies in the department of religion and culture at Virginia Tech. His most recent book, written ...

Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers ...

Fans of Vikings witnessed the relationship between Ragnar Lothbrok and Athelstan from the very first season. A deep friendship that grew stronger over time, ultimately leading to the Saxon monk's ...

Runic inscriptions on an 1,100-year-old arm ring unearthed in Scotland suggest that the hoard of silver and gold it was buried with belonged to an entire Viking community. At such a critical moment in ...

Some say the ritual echoes the cremation of great Norse leaders and religious ceremonies to mark the Sun’s return to those longest, dark winter nights in the far north. Up Helly Aa celebrates ...

The pieces dated to around 900 A.D. or the Viking Age. The hoard “was buried ... to be made for a bishop suggests it could have been a religious community. “This is a difficult and unusual ...