On a foggy morning off Norway’s craggy coast, a square-rigged clinker boat—a descendant of Viking craft—glided between islands. No compass guided its crew. No engine rumbled below deck. Instead, Greer ...

A graduate student in Sweden has been learning about Vikings through an unusual method: He’s done it by sailing like one.

Vikings likely sailed farther offshore, navigating by stories and island harbors. Jarrett’s voyages show the boats’ stability ...

Archeologists speculate the burial site is probably related to a nobleman’s farm located less than 0.65 miles away. That find ...

Travel back in time and learn about Norway's rich heritage, including Vikings and the Sami ... Check out the cities on the map by scrolling over the name and linking out to the port for more ...

Instead, the Norse relied on mental maps informed by cultural ... trade that took place during the Viking Age. Major ports, such as Bergen and Trondheim in Norway, Ribe in Denmark, and Dublin ...

A young archeology student in the Scandinavian nation discovered seven ... This discovery also further puts the nation on the Viking map. “The find emphasizes that Aarhus was a central ...

The 30 Viking graves range from richly furnished to bare-bones, hinting at a burial ground for both nobles and the people ...

Ultimately, the rivets will map the curvature ... bring to the first Viking ship excavation in a century is also providing extraordinary insight into Scandinavian burial practices at the time.

Today we journey to Iceland, Norway, and the Faroe Islands on Viking Cruises. “You’re not the typical Viking passenger,” the septuagenarian in the sauna remarked. “Out of 1000 total ...

‘This highlights that there were people with Scandinavian ancestry in Britain earlier than the Anglo-Saxon and Viking periods ...