Jenny Jochens joined the faculty of Towson University in 1966 and was later named a professor of history. She retired in 1995 ...

Xavier Molyneux, who is perhaps best known for playing Byron Stone in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, will lead the cast in the title role as Erik Bloodaxe. Jessica, who is famed for playing ...

At a time when political tensions are escalating globally, it’s refreshing to find a country where war is a word found only in history books ...

Facing death, Ragnar laughs at his enemies. His final words—like many Viking sagas—reveal a culture that saw glory, not fear, in the end.

Despite dating to the centuries after the Viking age, sagas and legal texts provide words and stories about childbearing that the Vikings' immediate descendants used and circulated.

A new study shows that pregnancies during the Viking Age were far from a private matter, closely tied to conflict, social status, and the harsh realities of life and death.

Together with recent studies of Viking women buried as warriors, this provokes further thought to how we envisage gender roles in the oft-perceived hyper-masculine Viking societies.

Pregnancy was deeply political and far from uniform in meaning for Viking-age communities. It shaped – and was shaped by – ideas of social status, kinship and personhood.

Discover the mysteries of L’Anse aux Meadows, the only confirmed Viking settlement in North America.

In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of history.