Researchers believe the drinking hall may have been used by the Norse chief Earl Sigurd — who was a powerful figure during the 12th Century — and his high-ranking officers.

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 ...

Scotland's Most Mysterious Stone Age Settlements The Orkneys, an archipelago of islands off the northern coast of Scotland, are home to some of the greatest neolithic treasures in western Europe ...

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.

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 ...

Alexander Skarsgård stars as Amleth, a Viking prince avenging his ... "The film takes place in northern Scotland, Ukraine, and Iceland," Eggers told BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster programme.

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.