A massive 1,100-year-old graveyard leads to a surprising new view of the Nordic legacy ... his lands from the Vikings. Leberecht Music & Arts / Alamy Stock Photo Here history collides with myth ...

Nordic countries are pooling resources to counter Russia amid uncertain security guarantees from Trump’s White House.

Revelatory new DNA analysis has suggested that people with Nordic heritage could be found in Britain centuries before the Vikings first ... a professor of medieval history at King's College ...

The Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking examples of pagan Nordic culture, while the other runic stone and the church illustrate the Christianization of the Danish people ...

5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... proving the sagas were not just fiction. Vikings had indeed reached the coast of ...

with the new series promising to examine one of history’s most famous Viking warriors alongside his formidable wife. The project, which hails from MGM Television, is not related to the Vikings ...

NEIL OLIVER:Today, even over a thousand years later, people still believe the Vikings were simply dangerous and fierce warriors. NEIL OLIVER:Thank you. NEIL OLIVER:I just want you to tell me what ...

With the publication of Peter Sawyer’s The Age of the Vikings in 1962, a cuddly makeover began to change the popular perception of the Nordic voyagers. “We Danes call that softening stueren ...

Explain how the Vikings still influence us today, especially through language, and how they were more than just invaders and great warriors. This clip is suitable for teaching History at KS2 and ...

In the waters of the Baltic Sea, long before the Vikings and the written records that tell us of conquests and explorations, there were already peoples venturing out to sea. A new study published in ...

Hard rock and heavy metal have long had a love affair with the Vikings. Led Zeppelin arguably kicked the whole thing off with Immigrant Song in 1970, singer Robert Plant memorably wailing, ‘ Valhalla, ...