The Christian faith took hold at the end of the Viking Age ... could have been felled as early as 1196. The interior of Norway's Heddal stave church has been renovated and restored several ...

The carvings, created in a traditional Viking ... The church and cemetery are still in use today. Hopperstad was also built around 1130, but unlike Urnes, much of the interior has been removed ...

Archaeologists in Trondheim, Norway have unearthed the church where Viking King Olaf Haraldsson was first enshrined as a saint. Experts uncovered the stone foundations of a wooden stave church ...

Formally known as the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, the Christ Church Cathedral has been visited for almost 1,000 years. Originally a Viking church founded in 1030, Archbishop Laurence O'Toole ...

The most well-known example is from St. Botolph’s church in Hadstock, near Cambridge. According to local myth, St. Botolph’s macabre adornment was taken from a Viking after they attempted to ...