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 ...

In “Embers of the Hands,” historian Eleanor Barraclough digs deep into the ways that the Vikings loved, traveled and even played.

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 ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...