Uncover the fascinating Viking-age monetary system with the analysis of a thousand-year-old iron ring from Sweden.

Plus, we still use some of their Old Norse language today ... The Vikings themselves did not leave a written record during the Viking Age (AD700-1100) but Vikings did use runes.

This online mythology course is an introduction to the religion of the Vikings as it is recorded in Old Norse and Scandinavian literature from the medieval period. You will learn about the different ...

Plus, we still use some of their Old Norse language today ... The Vikings themselves did not leave a written record during the Viking Age (AD700-1100) but Vikings did use runes.

Likewise, the new research gleans considerable insight into Viking oral health from centuries-old remains ... suggests that dentistry in the Viking Age was probably more sophisticated than ...

This insinuates that people of Scandinavian ancestry were in Britain before the Anglo-Saxon period (around 400 A.D. to 1,000 A.D.) and Viking period (around 800 A.D. to 1,000 A.D.). Genetic analysis ...

the site of Old Uppsala was an important place during the Viking Age and is a must-see for travelers in Uppsala. According to the Old Uppsala Museum, Swedes believed they were descended from the ...

Old Norse, in which víkingr just meant “raider.” As the medievalist Tom Shippey once put it, the term “wasn’t an ethnic label, it was a job description.” Talking about the Viking Age is ...