Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for reinterpretation. Over centuries, writers, politicians, and artists reshaped these ...

When we think of norsemen or the Vikings, many myths come to mind, created from the pencils of artists, stage productions and hollywood movies centuries later.

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VICTORIA, B.C. -- Vikings: Lives Beyond the Legends, at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria from May 16 to Nov. 11, is an exhibition that would like to clear up a few things. First of all, ...

Aside from their love of the sea, the ancient Greeks and Vikings shared much more that united them and divided them.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Vikings had windows — usually only associated with medieval churches and castles — meaning Norsemen dignitaries sat in rooms lit up by apertures with glass, Danish ...