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 fascinating discoveries being made, some truly ...

LEKNES, Norway — Just a few years ago, the only Viking ship that appeared in the waterways around this town of 3,200 people was a replica of something more than a thousand years old. But over the past ...

Even though it’s been 2500 years since the Vikings roamed Scandinavia (and the world), they still fascinate us. So what was life really like for them? These historical facts about their hygiene and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Viking age, spanning the 8th to 11th centuries AD, left a lasting mark on the genetics of today's Scandinavians, according to scientists who also documented the outsized ...

A new study reported in the journal Cell on January 5 captures a genetic history across Scandinavia over 2,000 years, from the Iron Age to the present day. This look back at Scandinavian history is ...

The Vikings explored, raided and traded across a vast area stretching from North America to the Middle East between roughly the late eighth and mid-11th centuries. In Old Norse, the language the ...

“Get Out There” is a column for itchy footed humans written by long-time Paste contributor Blake Snow. Today we journey to Iceland, Norway, and the Faroe Islands on Viking Cruises. “You’re not the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. Vikings sailed from Scandinavia to Ireland around the year 795.

Viking Ocean Cruises is doubling down on Scandinavia with three new itineraries that focus on Norway, Sweden and Denmark. New on the fast-growing line's website as of this month: Majestic Fjords & ...

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick ...

In the biggest study of its kind, published in the journal Nature Wednesday, researchers found that many Vikings actually had brown hair. And they weren't just from Scandinavia. In a six-year study, ...