To Miguel Vilar, former senior program officer for the National Geographic Society, it comes as no surprise that the findings paint such a complex picture of Viking heritage—one that runs ...

Ruling the wavesAlbert Goodwin’s 19th-century painting reflects the deep impact the Vikings made on the European imagination. Throughout the ninth century, their raids expanded across western ...

But as researchers conduct additional analysis of detailed European records of Viking slave-taking raids, the scale of this trade has been revised sharply upward. A 19th-century painting by Peter ...

Famously, the Viking period is usually marked by the raid on Lindisfarne, a small island off the northeastern coast of England, in 793. But evidence shows that decades before this violent ...

Most of what we know about the Viking raiders comes from the tales of the survivors of these raids rather than the Vikings themselves. The survivors tell of ships shaped like dragons, of brutal ...

Why did the Vikings raid? Here’s everything you need to know. The Viking campaign began with raids on Christian lands in England and then expanded to mainland Europe and present-day Russia.

The findings provided insight into migration patterns and gene flow during the Viking age, when Norsemen journeyed from Scandinavia aboard timber longships, staged raids and monastic plundering ...

Until relatively recently, it was thought to be mainly Viking men who sailed in longboats from their homeland in Norway, Denmark and Sweden to raid distant coastal settlements overseas.

The older man, who died when he was in his 50s, succumbed to an injury likely sustained during a Viking raid. The second, who was in his 20s when he died, was targeted in the St. Brice's Day ...