As Arjen Spießwinkel searched along the banks of the Schlei River in northern Germany with his metal detector, he uncovered a hoard of 1,000-year-old artifacts. He immediately alerted archaeologists, ...

Indeed, the Vikings started out as pagans roughly in the eighth century, and by the 10th century, Harald Bluetooth bragged that he had converted Denmark to Christianity.

The Viking era lasted nearly three centuries (late 8th century to late 11th century) and had a profound impact on a wide variety of geographical areas, reaching across the known world of that time.

Most eighteenth-century vikings wore winged helmets, the cap of choice for wild, romantic natures and refined sensibilities. ... The Vikings existed from the 8th to the 11th century.

“Most archaeologists would accept that there was extended contact in Britain with the Vikings from the late eighth century or earlier, and there is no reason to think that contact would not ...

During the Viking period, British-Irish ancestry was widespread in Scandinavia, compared to eastern Baltic ancestry which was more localized to the Swedish island of Gotland and central Sweden.

The Vikings roamed across Europe and beyond from the late 8th century to the mid-11th century. They left reminders of their presence everywhere they went; from burial mounds along the fjords they ...

The silver fragments date back around 1,100 years to the eighth and ninth centuries — during the Viking Age, which lasted for about 200 years between the ninth and 11th centuries.

A pre-Viking burial mound on Leka Island, seen from the west, where the remains of an eighth-century ship were found. Credit... Hanne Bryn/NTNU University Museum ...

They found that Viking Age Scandinavia was much more genetically diverse than modern Scandinavia. This individual, who died in the wreck of the Swedish warship Kronan in 1676, unknowingly made a ...