Two ancient Viking swords were discovered in a stone burial chamber in central Sweden during a highway excavation. The excavation was made in Viby/Norrtuna, in the province of Västmanland ...

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

VIKING NEBULA shows what happens when military operation planners try to come up with a good mission name, unlike Odyssey ...

Each year they prepare obsessively for Up Helly Aa, assembling, plank by plank, a replica of a Viking ship. Bristling with spears and swords, Viking and Slav reenactors face off in a mock battle ...

Without this crucial advance in ship technology, the Vikings would never have become a dominant force in medieval warfare, politics, and trade. The drekar, or dragon-headed longships, were ...

Those who could not run fast enough were killed and their helmets, weapons and armour were stolen. The Vikings did not send many ships on their first raids. They made surprise attacks on ...

That expeditionary squadron, which contains four B-52s, air crew and other airmen needed to support the bombers, deployed ...

Visitors to the Westman Gaming Expo at the Keystone Centre over the weekend were transported back in time as Viking ...