Some came to fight, but others came to Britain to live peacefully ... winter and even old age! The Vikings believed that they might wonder the world as ghosts if they weren’t given the right ...

With the help of more than 50 volunteers, archaeologists say they have identified the largest Viking-Age building ever ...

Life in England was about to change forever ... The Vikings themselves did not leave a written record during the Viking Age (AD700-1100) but Vikings did use runes. There is writing from the ...

A massive 1,100-year-old graveyard leads to a surprising new view of the Nordic legacy in Britain St. Wystan’s church in Repton. In 873-874, a Viking army is believed to have entrenched in the ...

Two Viking era stone grave markers thought to be 1,000 years old have been put on display in a church in the north of the ...

“The destruction of so many high-status objects, evident in this hoard, is also of a scale rarely seen in Iron Age Britain ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a Viking age building in northwest England that they believe to be the 'largest discovered and excavated in Britain'. The team dug up a farm in Silloth, Cumbria last ...

Indeed, the Viking Age, from A.D. 800-1100 ... longships carried Viking raiders from northern England to north Africa. Viking expertise in naval craftsmanship soon led to the evolution of other ...