From the 793 attack on Lindisfarne monastery that left the surrounding sea red with blood to the pirate raids so vicious Anglo-Saxon king Ethelred the Unready was forced to pay a yearly tribute to ...

A man digging in his yard to build an extension of his house in southern Norway has unearthed the 1,100-year-old grave of a Viking warrior who was buried with weapons. The finds include a rusty iron ...

Fighting is a problem in some schools. But not at the Viking warrior academy in Eagan. It’s what Arthur Von Eschen teaches — warfare the way the Vikings did it, when they terrorized Europe with their ...

Artist's impression of the occupant of grave Bj.581 as a high-status female warrior, left, and a sketch of grave Bj. 581. Christer Åhlin, Swedish History Museum/Antiquity Publications Ltd An ...

When an impressive Viking grave containing weapons, horses and even a board game was excavated in the 1880s, it was simply assumed that the skeleton belonged to a man. A new analysis of the DNA has ...

The grave of a Viking warrior has been revealed beyond reasonable doubt to belong to a woman, challenging our understanding of ancient societies. The burial site of the warrior, first discovered in ...

More than a millennium ago in what’s now southeastern Sweden, a wealthy Viking warrior was laid to rest, in a resplendent grave filled with swords, arrowheads, and two sacrificed horses. The site ...

In 2017, a team of Swedish archaeologists announced an exciting discovery: They had, for the first time, identified the remains of a Viking woman warrior. A DNA analysis of a Viking Age skeleton ...

At first, the scientific paper seemed like scientific confirmation of a long-cherished myth about Vikings. DNA and geochemistry experts re-examined the famous Swedish grave of a high-ranking Viking ...

Researchers have identified what may be the first evidence of a Viking woman with a battle injury—potentially casting new light on gender roles in ancient Scandinavian society. National Geographic ...