Researchers studied Old Norse literature and archaeological evidence to shed new light on women's experiences of pregnancy ...

A new study shows that pregnancies during the Viking Age were far from a private matter, closely tied to conflict, social ...

He led the Normans, a people who included Viking descendants. Although the Vikings originated in Scandinavia, they traveled to and lived across a vast area. The most distant western outpost known ...

But a new study that traces Viking DNA through to modern Scandinavia suggests otherwise. Some interactions between different groups of people leave a long-lasting mark on their descendants ...

Some of the only written evidence of their actions comes directly from their victims or from sagas written hundreds of years later by the Vikings' descendants. Although the Vikings were also ...

Identifying descendants of ancient people can help to ... with the highest quality genome data), as well as with Beethoven, Viking-era individuals and people represented in ancient-DNA data ...

It is a testament to the breadth of Norse influence, for the French-speaking Normans were in fact the assimilated descendants of Vikings who had invaded northwestern France. “Norman” is a vers ...

Experts say it’s a Viking sword that is probably more than ... Their incursions did not last, but their descendants still make up part of the British population today. In recent years, metal ...