Thanks to a 12th-century Danish historian, we have so many details about the Viking era to consume. Saxo Grammaticus was […] ...

A must-visit for Viking Age enthusiasts, the Stavanger region's Norse legacy is celebrated in monuments, museums, and a modern VR experience.

Archaeological evidence reveals that materially, the Viking world was like that of the Iron Age, says Søren Michael Sindbæk, an archaeologist as Aarhus University in Denmark. Despite that, it was also ...

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 13th century that records stories handed down by word ...

Last fall, a Swedish man spotted something in a marsh on Oland, Sweden’s second-largest island. At first, he thought the circular object—found lying on the ground near a construction pit—might be a ...

Öland was once a key trading post for Sweden, especially during the Viking age. The country’s second-largest island sits off the southeast coast of the mainland, surrounded by the Baltic Sea. It was ...

The Nordic Bronze Age shaped Viking culture with trade, war, art, and music, as revealed in a 2025 symposium by top ...

Archaeologists in Sweden uncovered a massive Viking-era cemetery near the village of Tvååker, located southwest of Varberg in Halland County. The discovery includes at least 139 graves and ...