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

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

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 ...

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 ...

Vikings is the historical drama created by Michael Hirst for the History Channel, which premiered in 2013, inspired by the Norse sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok. Over 6 seasons, the series narrated the ...

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.