researchers concluded that this was indeed a Viking settlement. Not only is this the largest known Viking Age building in ...

Detailed maps of Viking settlements in Scotland, Ireland, England, Iceland and Normandy. National Museums and Galleries of Wales: Digging for Vikings - Find out about excavation work at ...

Famously, the Viking period is usually marked by the raid on Lindisfarne, a small island off the northeastern coast of England, in 793 ... founding numerous trading hubs and settlements across Europe.

From their mastery of the seas to their influence over lands as far from home as Russia and North America, the Scandinavian raiders known as the Vikings shaped the world for centuries. Swift and ...

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 ...

The 1960 discovery of a Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada, caused a sensation, proving the sagas were not just fiction. Vikings had indeed reached the coast of ...