The Althing Festival took place in Gilcrux’s Moorforge Viking site last weekend (July 13 to 15) and welcomed many fans and reenactors for several days of battle, games, archery, and storytelling.

Two horned helmets widely attributed to the Vikings have just been dated to 900 B.C. — some 2,000 years before the Vikings ...

Viking mythology and lore are filled with tales of women who lived for battle and engaged in violence, ... To Moen, the evidence of female Viking warriors is right in front of us.

Some Viking warriors went into battle wearing wolf or bear skins. These warriors were called ‘berserkers’ from Old Norse ‘bear-shirt.’ Berserkers believed that Odin, the god of war, gave ...