Aside from their love of the sea, the ancient Greeks and Vikings shared much more that united them and divided them.

Seven gold pendants dating back 1,500 years have been found in Råde, a rare treasure that depicting divine protection.

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

This video explores Odin’s role as the All-Father in Norse mythology and the many stories surrounding him.

The Vikings were not all bloodthirsty raiders. Some came to fight, but others came to Britain to live peacefully. Viking Who were they? What did they do? King The most powerful person in all the land ...

Long before the world knew Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, and the Olympians, an older generation ruled the cosmos. Among them stood ...

Vikings did not wear much armour. Some chieftains wore mail coats, made of thousands of metal rings but most relied on a round wooden shield for protection since these were very expensive. The Vikings ...

Each year, the annual Nine Emperor Gods Festival is celebrated from the first to the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. These gods are believed to be the nine sons of Dou Mu, the Goddess of the North ...

In the language of the Vikings, Old Norse, rök means “monolith,” and no other runestone stands out from its peers in more ways than Sweden’s Rök. The five-ton stone measures eight feet tall and its ...

The Vikings traded and raided across Europe and even reached as far as North America, leaving their mark on just about every land they conquered. So much so, that many elements of their heritage and ...

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