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

Unique Viking Grave Ship Hidden Beneath a Burial Mound Reveals Funeral of Viking Royalty The history of Vikings was glorified for its massive ships that reigned the glory of power and status. Most of ...

In a workshop in northeast England, a team mainly comprised of military veterans apply the finishing touches to a Viking ...

Hundreds of would-be vikings will take to York's ancient streets throughout February ... parades, games and a longship. York's JORVIK Viking Centre was built around Viking settlements that ...

The difference between a tourist and traveller is the deep dive into local culture to see its wonders up close. In Central Europe, a river voyage with Viking can take you into the heart of iconic ...

The festival involves a torchlit procession led by a “Guizer Jarl,” or Chief Viking, and a “Jarl Squad,” which lights a replica longship by throwing torches ... centuries or more” and are linked to ...

Brian Smith, in his history of the Lerwick Up Helly Aa ... but it was not until the late 1880s that a Viking longship – the “galley” – appeared, and as late as 1906 that “Guizer Jarl ...

From fiery festivals to nature's most dazzling "sky-dance", interest in the night skies is booming, with "noctourism" poised ...

A Viking replica longship sails across a fjord in Greenland ... It led to one of the most brutal human tragedies in American history: a massive ethnic cleansing. In the decades after the Louisiana ...