Two Viking-era skeletons reunited in Denmark after a millennium
Denmark’s National Museum is now the home for the remains of two Viking-era men that were once related, being reunited after a millennium. It wa...
Arabic sources describe the Vikings as beautiful but filthy
Icelandic historian Thorir Jonsson Hraundal has devoted his studies to observations in original Arab texts about the Vikings according to an article i...
Baltasar Kormákur to do Vikings movie after finishing Everest
Iceland’s top film director and producer Baltasar Kormákur has revealed that he wants to produce a movie called Vikings after he concluded his current...
Norway to build world’s biggest Viking theme park
Norway has revealed that it plans to start work on what will be the world’s largest Viking theme park in the near future. The park, which is expected ...
Stone found in English Channel could be Icelandic ‘sunstone’
A crystal recovered from a shipwreck in the English Channel may turn out to be the fabled ‘sunstone’ said to be used by the Vikings. According to anci...
Iceland’s early ‘criminal profiling’ of Vikings
Researchers have revealed that 10th century Iceland was perhaps one of the earliest documented places to utilise ‘criminal profiling’.
Vikings Explore Hudson Bay
Viking exploration of Hudson Bay will continue in 2013 when descendants of the first Viking voyagers to reach North America 1,000 years ago sail into ...
Viking ship found in Swedish lake
For the first time in Sweden’s long history, marine archaeologists have uncovered the wreck of a Viking ship lying in the mud at the bottom of Sweden’...