A PRETTY UK city has two rather unusual claims to fame – with the home of chocolate and a massive Viking event. Hundreds of ...

yielding more clues to Norse settlements in North America. 5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the ...

Bjarni EinarssonA Viking settlement dating back to 800 AD has rewritten the historical timeline of the ancient seafarers. Researchers are stunned by the recent discovery of a pair of Viking ...

The skin, ancient though it was ... 1996). Detailed maps of Viking settlements in Scotland, Ireland, England, Iceland and Normandy. National Museums and Galleries of Wales: Digging for Vikings ...

There are also three abandoned Viking settlements in Greenland that visitors ... What was once dismissed as legend has become established history, though many mysteries about these bold explorers ...

At Jarlshof in Shetland he finds evidence of an ancient Viking settlement including the remains of a farm and he’s shown some of the extraordinary artefacts found at the site. These reveal ...

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In movies and books about Vikings, the ancient seafaring conquerors don ... in the 11th century and one of the earliest Christian settlements in the country. The remains of the Varnhem Vikings ...

along with new exhibits and a film detailing the settlement's history. "The whole mystique of these Vikings, who were here hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus, has never, ever ...

Ancient hillforts and Roman settlements have been revealed by the heatwave. The dry spell has left parched fields with unmistakable "crop marks" painted into the landscape. The Royal Commission on ...

The northernmost settlement in the UK celebrated “Up Helly Aa”, an annual fire festival with ancient origins. Last night, a thousand people, dressed as Vikings, marched through the town holding ...