Residents of Shetland in the UK celebrate their Viking heritage at the Up Helly Aa fire festival, held in Lerwick.View on ...

Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history.

“You are,” Smith says as I stare at the newly exposed bright filigree of the Viking sword found in a river I have spent a lifetime crossing, “only the sixth person to see this decoration since the ...

As axes are brandished across Lerwick today, a far more ancient Viking weapon has found its way to Shetland Museum and ...

You can also win in a variety of ways, with some Viking-themed special win conditions such as being the first to forge Odin’s Sword or discovering and taking control of Yggdrasil. It even has ...

Archaeologists Stumble on a Rich Burial Ground From the Viking Age on a Small Rocky Knoll, May Have Belonged to Women Recent ...

The beloved actor and comedian Nick Frost will be seen as Gobber the Belch in How to Train Your Dragon 4. He has appeared in ...

The Cursed Sword, with battles and pyrotechnics. Tickets for this event cost £20 for adults and £15 for concessions. The March to Coppergate, a parade of more than 200 Viking warriors through ...

The brooches appear to have been repurposed from the clasps of Carolingian sword belts ... along the country’s southwest coast. During the Viking Age, the site was a farm that likely belonged ...

A stunning archaeological discovery in Norway sheds light on the status and influence of women during the Viking Age. The ...

Paul Mortimer, who has created replicas of weapons found at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk - where an Anglo-Saxon burial ship was discovered - said it probably attached a sword scabbard to a warrior's belt ...