Leading the West Saxon forces was King Æthelred, and his younger brother, the future Alfred the Great. That year, the Danes ...

the head of the department of archaeology at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, this second paper was “very convincing.” (Facts vs. fiction: How the real Vikings compared to the brutal ...

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 ...

When it comes to historical fiction, there are often elements that are based on fact. What about Vikings: Valhalla? Is any of this a true story? Historical fiction is just that. It’s fictional ...

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 ...

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 ...

the highest-earning player in NFL history, join the Vikings. “The #Vikings time with Darnold is likely over as they turn their eyes to Daniel Jones,” Rapoport posted on X on March 8.