Shows like Vikings take viewers on a journey to a medieval time and present plenty ... The Bastard Executioner is packed with intense battles, political intrigue, and compelling character arcs ...

How and why did medieval farmers in Scandinavia become ... a combatant grins and bears it after a mock battle at a Viking festival in Poland. Photographs by David Guttenfelder Each summer, Viking ...

The Vikings, like the Anglo-Saxons, fought on foot (not horseback) and in battle formed a ‘shield-wall’ where they locked together side-by-side, shields in front, and pushed their enemy back ...

Vikings are often depicted as brutish, bloodthirsty warriors with battle axes and horned helmets ... said Daniel Melleno, an ...

Orkney became an important base for Vikings. For hundreds of years, many Scottish islands belonged to Norway - until the Battle of Largs. In 1263 AD, King Haakon of Norway sent a fleet of Viking ...

They had a large hand in setting the contours of medieval Europe and creating a cultural inheritance that still shapes the West today. The world clearly doesn’t have enough Viking movies ...

Quite how the Vikings figured and how important ... Most of what we know about the battle is from the Annals of Loc Ce, a medieval Irish manuscript housed at Trinity College, Dublin.