Experience the ancient art of sword-making by forging a Viking-age sword from a rusted coil spring. This DIY tutorial takes you through the step-by-step process of transforming a seemingly useless ...

Hårby Valkyrie: A 1,200-year-old gold Viking Age woman sporting a sword, shield and ponytail The Vikings wore helmets with wings and horns. This idea can be traced to the 19th-century German artist ...

Kristofer Hivju, a.k.a. Tormund Giantsbane from “Game of Thrones,” is hosting a Smithsonian Channel competition about becoming a real-life Viking. The hour-long format, working-titled ...

Viking-inspired tattoos with Norse imagery and runes have become somewhat in vogue in the era of Pinterest-inspired body art, but did the Vikings actually have tattoos?

Myth 1: The Vikings were a single group . The Vikings are often thought of as a single nation, but they were more accurately small groups ruled by elected chieftains.

A summer program is underway at the Geneva History Museum aimed at getting kids more interested in the history of the Vikings. The museum this summer is presenting Little Vikings, a hands-on exhibi… ...