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

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 ...

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 ...