Vikings in Norway were more violent towards each other than previously thought, according to a new study that sheds more light on rules and their enforcement in these early European societies. Until ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

TRONDHEIM, Norway --In the Land of 10,000 lakes, some Minnesotans celebrate ties to Norway and the ways of the Vikings. Driving along the highway from Trondheim, Norway to the border of Sweden ...

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Aside from their love of the sea, the ancient Greeks and Vikings shared much more that united them and divided them.

From mysterious runic inscriptions and Jelling stones, to Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd singing opera in horned helmets, Viking lore continues to fascinate us. But what is real and what is legend? We take ...