In Estonia, scientists are poring over two buried ships filled with slain warriors, shedding new light on the violent origins of the Vikings. In Sweden, researchers are studying the remains of a ...

Viking has taken delivery of its newest river ship, the Viking Nerthus, at Meyer’s Neptun Werft shipyard in ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

In AD892, over 300 Viking ships invaded Britain to fight King Alfred ... having fortified the towns and organised a large army drawn from his own warriors and the male population called up to ...

Berserkr' is an Old Norse word meaning 'bear skin' and berserkers were Viking warriors who went into battle ... and 'longships' for raiding and war. A ship carried everything needed at sea ...