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

Learn how Vikings traveled the seas by way of trade routes — and how one researcher found out where they stopped to rest on ...

Vikings did not use maps, sextants, or other devices to navigate. They likely remembered their routes with coastal landmarks that were linked to myths... | Earth And The Environment ...

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett from Lund University in Sweden has spent three years retracing the voyages of Vikings, uncovering ...

Since 2022, Jarrett and his intrepid crews have navigated multiple voyages aboard an open, square-rigged clinker boat built ...

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett at Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for three years. He can ...

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett at Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for three years. He can ...

Viking experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester have examined pregnancy in the Viking Age and discovered that pregnant women were depicted in art and literature with martial gear ...

New research is finding that some women in Viking Age Scandinavia were buried with war-grade weapons. Experts are divided about what that means. Comments ( 0 ) ( ) ...

Map by Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Centre for the World in the Viking Age This was also a fluid time of reciprocal movement involving immigration into Scandinavia as well as movement away. The ...

The decorative style of the figurine suggests it was made around A.D. 800, or the early Viking Age. It was found in a field where archaeologists and detectorists discovered other metal objects ...