A new study suggests that Bronze Age Scandinavians crossed open seas 3,000 years before the Vikings, showing they were ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Vikings sure got around back in their day. Travelling from Scandinavia to Britain, Ireland, and all the way to North America and Russia, the most violent of the bunch raided ships everywhere ...

Learn about the history of the Vikings and Viking life, whilst collecting resources and completing challenges that will help you raid and trade your way from AD750 to 1066!