One legend in particular that persists is the Manx name given to the Milky Way - Raad Mooar Ree Gorree, which translates as ...

Vikings, an extensive exhibition from the Swedish History Museum, brings into focus a clearer image of who the Vikings really were — not the horn-helmeted warriors of myth and popular culture ...

Her youngest son, 14, is training in Viking combat and historical gaming, preparing to join battle re-enactments within the next two years.

Alas, added Van Deusen, while female Viking warriors were celebrated in stories and sagas, there's little evidence they truly existed. She said women had some rights, including the right to ...

Long-haired Norsemen with gold-gilded axes once guarded emperors in Constantinople. The Varangian Guard wasn’t just ...

In the 1870s, on Björkö, a Swedish island, archeologists discovered a Viking settlement at the excavation site Birka. Grave Bj.581 included the remains of two horses, “a sword, an axe, a spear ...