The movie only recently started filming and is still more than a year away, but each little detail that leaks out from the ...

In Estonia, scientists are poring over two buried ships filled with slain warriors, shedding new light on the violent origins of the Vikings. In Sweden, researchers are studying the remains of a ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

In AD892, over 300 Viking ships invaded Britain to fight King Alfred ... having fortified the towns and organised a large army drawn from his own warriors and the male population called up to ...