The Vikings were one of the most dominant forces ... sunk to form a blockade across the fjord in the early 11th century. The ship was 121 feet long. There are stories in the sagas of even bigger ...

Swift and deadly, the Vikings dominated the seas of northern Europe from the late eighth century to the 11th. Sails were adopted in Scandinavia by approximately the seventh century. Only fragments ...

Fierce warrior, conqueror and king, Björn Ironside is one of the towering figures of the Viking age. Yet ... the first depictions of Björn can be found in the writings of the 11th-century Benedictine ...

The Viking Age was the period from the 8th to the 11th century during which Vikings achieved unrivalled boat building, navigational and seamanship skills allowing them to travel widely throughout ...

He said that Norse texts indicate "there was interest in the first decades of the 11th century A.D. in establishing a colony in the area known as Vínland." The texts indicate that some Vikings ...

Part of History Britain: migration, empires and the people c790 to the present day The Vikings had been raiding England as far back as 793 when they looted a monastery in Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

Royal Mounds dating from before the Viking Age in Old Uppsala, Sweden. In the 11th century, a German church historian claimed people gathered in Old Uppsala every nine years to make sacrifices.

However, the Greenland disk, dated to around the start of the 11th century, does not have concentric rings. The researchers suggest that this could mean concentric rings were not present in early ...

More Viking Age silver has been discovered per square kilometer ... and two silver thistle-headed brooch pins. The early 11th-century Glenfaba Hoard of 464 coins, 25 ingots, and a broken armlet was ...

site of a stone church built in the 11th century and one of the earliest Christian settlements in the country. The remains of the Varnhem Vikings, who largely lived in nearby farm-based ...

York's Viking past The city of York was founded by the Romans in the first century AD, but it was really put on the map 800 years later when the Vikings invaded from Denmark and turned it into a ...

The Viking ship Skidbladner ... dated to around the start of the 11th century, does not have concentric rings, while the Wolin disc, dated to the end of the first half of the 11th century ...