A new study has revealed that Nordic vikings were a lot more bloodthirsty than their neighbors, the Danish vikings. The findings were based on examining the prevalence of violence-induced trauma from ...

ATLANTA — What do you know about Vikings? Did they wear horned helmets, carry large swords, and raid and pillage everything in their path on their journeys across the high seas? That’s part of their ...

While clearing a field on his farm, a Norwegian man discovered a rare Viking Age sword that's thought to be 1,000 years old. "We were about to start sowing grass on a field that has not been plowed ...

Two ancient Viking swords have been unearthed from a stone burial chamber in central Sweden during a highway excavation. The weapons had been left untouched for roughly 1,200 years and provide an ...

A family in Norway have found a grave in their backyard while preparing the area to build a house extension. Oddbjørn Holum Heiland began digging behind his house in Setesdal on Friday night when he ...

A Norwegian man clearing his farm found a rare 1,000-year-old Viking sword carrying inscriptions that may shed more light on Nordic culture. “We were going to start sowing new grass on a field that ...

Archaeologists unearthed a pair of 1,200-year-old Viking-age swords standing upright from a stone grave in a burial mound in Västmanland. Photo from Arkeologerna and Sweden's National Historical ...

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Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington have worked with the Wallace Collection to analyse the contents of Viking swords – and the results shed new light on trade routes in ...

Research is underway to learn more about the origins of medieval sword found earlier this month at the bottom of a Polish river, which some experts believe may have belonged to the Vikings. The sword ...

While excavating a Viking cemetery near the Swedish town of Köping, archaeologists discovered a pair of sword hilts protruding curiously from the earth. After further investigation, they determined ...