Just before the age of the Vikings, a town on an eastern island of present-day Denmark was a regional center of trade. The town of Lejre is centrally located between England and Sweden, each with ...
An exceptionally rare gold-plated fragment of a pre-Viking helmet adorned with red gemstones was discovered in Lejre, Denmark, the historic power center of the Vikings. The helmet fragment dates ...
What began as small raiding parties early in the Viking age grew into armies that conquered large swaths of Europe. Photograph by David Guttenfelder A helmet outfitted with beardlike chain mail ...
In a town outside Copenhagen, Denmark, metal detectorists discovered an artifact that pre-dates the Vikings. Marco Chilese via Unsplash Just before the age of the Vikings, a town on an eastern ...