Researchers believe the drinking hall may have been used by the Norse chief Earl Sigurd — who was a powerful figure during ...

Why was the Brough of Birsay, on the north west coast of the mainland of Orkney, Scotland ... photographs and an aerial view of another Viking settlement or archaeological site, such as Qassiarsuk ...

Vikings may have moved ships - similar to this replica of a vessel found in a Viking burial ground in Norway - across land in the west of Scotland Archaeologists are investigating the possibility ...

The Vikings are known to have gone on to launch a series of daring raids elsewhere in England, Ireland, and Scotland ... establishing a settlement in the northern reaches of Newfoundland.

Dr Colleen Batey, a Viking specialist associated with the Institute for Northern Studies in Scotland ... "It suggests that the short-lived settlement was active in about 1021 when wood was ...

Swift and deadly, the Vikings dominated the seas of northern Europe from the late eighth century to the 11th. Sails were adopted in Scandinavia by approximately the seventh century. Only fragments ...

The 1960 discovery of a Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada, caused a sensation, proving the sagas were not just fiction. Vikings had indeed reached the coast of ...

Why was the Brough of Birsay, on the north west coast of the mainland of Orkney, Scotland ... or another Viking settlement, and consider what the different buildings might have been.