The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...

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Both poet and killer, he walked the line between man and myth. Feared for his words as much as his blade, his story reveals the darker side of the Viking world. Tropical Storm Melissa update as ...

The figurine is a little more than an inch tall. Roberto Fortuna / National Museum of Denmark Curator Peter Pentz was exploring the vast archives of Denmark’s National Museum when he stumbled upon an ...

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The Vikings were crazy for silver. It was a hallmark of wealth, hoarded in the form of cigar-shaped ingots and woven into intricate neck-rings. The problem was that scarcely any silver was mined in ...

Viking movies have been a consistent film genre since the 1950s, but the concept has received a place in pop culture due to ...

“Bloodaxe,” Amazon Prime Video‘s upcoming series about Viking warrior Erik Bloodaxe, has found its lead actor in Xavier Molyneux. “Bloodaxe” is created by Michael Hirst and his son, Horatio Hirst. The ...

Viking warriors drew their shields, artisans displayed their wares and visitors strolled about in medieval and fantasy gear for the final day of the Ohio Viking Festival. The three-day festival ...

SAN ANTONIO — At Grunt Style Retail in the heart of downtown, warriors are putting their hearts on full display. Tom Spooner is the co-founder and president of Warriors Heart. He says every one of the ...