In the hills of Bosnia, former construction worker Stipe Pleic has traded his life in Germany for the role of a modern-day ...

Viking ancestry is far more common in Britain than most of us ever realised. A simple DNA kit could reveal your family’s own ...

It’s week 14 of the NFL season and the 3-9 Washington Commanders will be facing a 4-8 Minnesota Vikings team on the road at U ...

We had a lot of stories this week at Wide Left. In addition to the Philip Rivers piece, we have two pieces from Matt Fries. The first one explores how good the Vikings defens e was against the ...

Vikings are often imagined as a single Scandinavian people with a shared identity, yet the historical reality is far more ...

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.

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 ...

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

Good Viking stories can be hard to find, but Netflix is now streaming the best-reviewed movie ever made about these ...

The Ash Pendant was discovered in a Viking Age burial mound in Sweden and may have been used by a female shaman.