Nearly 500 years before Columbus set sail, Viking explorer Leif Erikson landed on the shores of North America. The city of ...

Viking age people who lived in what is now Norway were far more likely to be violently killed than Viking age people who lived in Denmark, a new analysis reveals. The findings were surprising to the ...

TRONDHEIM, Norway --In the Land of 10,000 lakes, some Minnesotans celebrate ties to Norway and the ways of the Vikings. Driving along the highway from Trondheim, Norway to the border of Sweden ...

Vikings in Norway were more violent towards each other than previously thought, according to a new study that sheds more light on rules and their enforcement in these early European societies. Until ...

SELJORD, Norway – Jeppe Nordmann Garly has for years been a “recreational Viking,” a keen member of a fringe fraternity of would-be Norse warriors who dress up in 10th-century clothing, attend weekend ...

SELJORD, Norway — Jeppe Nordmann Garly has for years been a “recreational Viking,” a keen member of a fringe fraternity of would-be Norse warriors who dress up in 10th-century clothing, attend weekend ...

Worried three of its prize vessels would fall part, Norway's Viking Ship Museum is moving a trio of millennia-old ships to a ...

While I’ve enjoyed a lot of travel adventure, I doubt anything in my journals would rival the adventure my grandparents had as they sailed away from their Norwegian homeland — poor and without even a ...

From mysterious runic inscriptions and Jelling stones, to Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd singing opera in horned helmets, Viking lore continues to fascinate us. But what is real and what is legend? We take ...

OSLO — Two of Norway’s greatest cultural treasures, the preserved Viking longships Oseberg and Gokstad, managed to survive sea voyages more than a thousand years ago, followed by centuries interred in ...