Modern Viking music: Tragedy of a misunderstood art ~humanities.history Video 1:17:45, published Feb 6 2024 8 votes
Scandinavia's oldest known ship burial is located in mid-Norway – Merovingian period discovery pushes back tradition of ship burials ~humanities.history Article 962 words 11 votes
How Denmark destroyed Greenland: Brief history of Denmark's colonialism in Greenland ~humanities.history Video 25:20 17 votes
Denmark's first Viking queen was likely more powerful than the king, research finds ~humanities.history Article 77 words 14 votes
Norwegian family finds Viking-era relics while searching for a lost gold earring in their garden ~humanities.history Article 9 votes
Solar storm confirms Vikings were settled in North America in 1021AD ~humanities.history Article 705 words, published Oct 21 2021 28 votes
Capturing the spirit of ancient seafaring, the reconstructed Viking sailboat "Saga Farmann" has successfully completed an epic journey from Norway's Tønsberg to Istanbul ~humanities.history Article 609 words 16 votes
Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark – artefacts believed to date back to 980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumn ~humanities.history Article 378 words 12 votes
A Gaelic-speaking warrior queen called Aud is central to an emerging theory that Scottish and Irish Celts played a far bigger role in Iceland's history than realised ~humanities.history Article 881 words, published Jan 4 2023 6 votes
Vikings brought their animals to England, research suggests – experts find evidence at Derbyshire cremation site of horses and dogs originating from the Baltic Shield ~humanities.history Article 616 words 6 votes
Archaeologists with the Nordjyske Museer in Denmark have found the remains of a large, thousand-year-old homestead, which they believe may have been a Viking hall ~humanities.history Article 299 words 6 votes
Did Vikings find their way to a remote part of Oklahoma? Some in a small community believe so, thanks to controversial runic carvings found in the area. ~humanities.history Article 1587 words 13 votes
Viking-era sword hilt found near grave of 'Gausel Queen' by amateur detectives – only twenty similar swords of this type have been found in Norway ~humanities.history Article 573 words 4 votes
UN's culture agency adds Nordic clinker boats to its list of traditions that represent the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity ~humanities.history Article 638 words 4 votes
Were the Norse the first to settle the Azores? Seafarers may have come and gone from lush archipelago more than 1000 years ago ~humanities.history Link 7 votes
Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021 ~humanities.history Article 3952 words 5 votes
Modern analysis of a 1,000-year-old grave in Finland challenges long-held beliefs about gender roles in ancient societies ~humanities.history Article 672 words 11 votes
This month Norwegian archaeologists hope to complete their excavation of a rare, buried longship at Gjellestad, an ancient site south-east of Oslo ~humanities.history Article 838 words 5 votes
The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare. ~humanities.history Article 8055 words 5 votes
Two Vikings from the same family are to be 'reunited' – DNA evidence has linked the skeleton from Oxford with another skeleton excavated in Denmark ~humanities.history Article 7 votes
Dark hair was common among Vikings – research reveals they were a genetically diverse group and not purely Scandinavian ~humanities.history Article 710 words 14 votes
Researchers say they have found the world's earliest confirmed case of smallpox, revealing the disease was widespread across northern Europe during the Viking age ~humanities.history Article 683 words 3 votes
What made the Viking longship so terrifyingly effective? ~humanities.history Video 4:04, published Jun 22 2020 7 votes
Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century ~humanities.history Article 181 words 6 votes
How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone ~humanities.languages Article 354 words 9 votes
What's so special about Viking ships? | Jan Bill ~humanities.history Video 4:58, published Jan 21 2020 7 votes
Treasure trove of artifacts illustrates life in a lost Viking mountain pass – Lendbreen, in Norway, was an important route from the Roman era until the late Middle Ages ~humanities.history Article 1299 words 8 votes
Finding faith in the gods of the Vikings – Richard didn't expect his hobby would help him find his own belief through Norse mythology ~humanities.history Article 8 votes
Board-game piece from period of first Viking raid found on Lindisfarne – small glass crown thought to be rare archaeological link to raiders ~humanities.history Article 607 words 12 votes
Sweden's Rök runestone reveals inscriptions were as much about climate change fears as they were the history of ancient battles ~humanities.languages Article 621 words 9 votes
Radar uncovers the remains of a Viking ship, discovered on a farm near a medieval church at Edøy in Norway ~humanities.history Article 353 words 7 votes
West Zealand has given the green light to rebuild a Viking fortress on its original archaeological site, more than 1,000 years after it first stood there ~humanities.history Article 407 words 8 votes
Female warrior long assumed to be a Viking may actually be a Slavic warrior woman who migrated to Denmark from present-day Poland ~humanities.history Article 597 words 6 votes
Swedish authorities have announced the first Viking boat grave discoveries in the country in more than fifty years ~humanities.history Article 495 words 7 votes
How Iceland recreated a Viking-age religion - the Ásatrú faith, one of Iceland’s fastest growing religions, combines Norse mythology with ecological awareness – and it’s open to all religion Article 1642 words 23 votes
Walrus bones provide clues to fate of lost Viking colony ~humanities.history Article 683 words 4 votes