The popular perception of Vikings is that of aggressive, pillaging, bloodthirsty male warriors. But, as historian Judith Jesch explains, the Viking Age was not just a masculine… Read more “Viking women: raiders, traders and settlers”

In 2017, a research paper made waves by claiming that the remains of a supposed professional warrior found in a 10th-century grave in Birka, Sweden, could be… Read more “Viking ‘warrior women’: Judith Jesch, an expert in Viking studies, examines the latest evidence”

By Stephanie Pappas on July 11, 2019 in Scientific American Climate change is already rotting archaeological sites in the Arctic, and Norse Viking-era settlements are at high risk      … Read more “Viking History Is Melting Away in Greenland”

Photo by Charles Starrett Article published on Medievalist.net 2016, writer unknown The Vikings and people of the Norse world would have been predisposed to emphysema and other… Read more “The Vikings, their worms, and the diseases they got”

(Via Getty) By SEAN MARTIN PUBLISHED: 14:38, Mon, Mar 16, 2020 AN ANCIENT Viking slab spoke of an impending climate catastrophe and how there would be a battle between… Read more “Ancient Viking slab warned of ‘ominous’ climate catastrophe”

                                              A herd of reindeer… Read more “Reindeer Cyclones Are Real, and You Definitely Don’t Want to Get Caught in One”

Part of Sweden’s famous runestone, which bears the longest-known runic inscription in stone.© Ella Hanochi/iStockphoto BY NICOLE SANDERSON TUESDAY, MAY 9, 2000 NOVA The Vikings are often… Read more “Viking Runes Through Time”

By K. Kris Hirst Updated February 05, 2020 Viking social structure was highly stratified, with three ranks or classes which were written directly into Scandinavian mythology, as… Read more “Viking Social Structure Class Systems and the Norse in Scandinavia and Beyond”

David Nikel Senior Contributor @Forbes The recent discovery of several Viking ship graves in Norway has lifted interest in Viking history to new heights. While there’s no doubting the… Read more “The Stunning Viking Runestones Of Scandinavia”

By Yasemin Saplakoglu July 08, 2019 Archaeologists recently unearthed two Viking burial boats in Uppsala, Sweden — one of which was exceptionally preserved and held the remains of… Read more “Fantastically Preserved Viking Boat Grave and Skeletons Unearthed in Sweden”