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 ...
Metal detectorist Roy Søreng was scouring a field in Norway when he stumbled upon an oval-shaped metal brooch. When ...
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 ...
It has long been thought that the Vikings in Scandinavian countries were equally aggressive. That was not the case. A new study suggests that the Norwegians were the fiercest and most lawless Vikings ...
SELJORD, Norway – Jeppe Nordmann Garly has for years been a “recreational Viking,” a keen member of a fringe fraternity of would-be Norse warriors who dress up in 10th-century clothing, attend weekend ...
“The preservation, the jewellery, the symbolism, it’s extraordinary on multiple levels,” Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) archaeologist Raymond Sauvage says of the discovery of a ...
Archaeologists may have uncovered a Viking boat grave beneath the market square in the Norwegian city of Trondheim. Experts from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) uncovered ...
While I’ve enjoyed a lot of travel adventure, I doubt anything in my journals would rival the adventure my grandparents had as they sailed away from their Norwegian homeland — poor and without even a ...
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 ...
A 115-foot oaken sailing craft with an ominous dragon for a figurehead set sail from Haugesund, Norway, last week en route to Duluth and other North American ports timed for summer festivals. The ...