Almost one million Britons alive today are of Viking descent, which means one in 33 men can claim to be direct descendants of the Vikings. Around 930,000 descendents of warrior race exist today ...

“It takes some people, especially the younger folks, a while to realize we are not Vikings. We are the spiritual descendants of Vikings and we have to have answers for real people in the 21st centur ...

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 ...

As such, the researchers looked at texts dating to a few centuries later: histories circulated by their descendants, which “may have their roots in the earlier Viking period,” says co-author ...

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 ...

that the Vikings’ descendants thrived on a lucrative trade in walrus tusks, which were sold to Europe’s elite and carved into luxury items, such as ivory crucifixes, knife handles, and fancy ...

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 ...

sagas and legal texts provide words and stories about childbearing that the Vikings' immediate descendants used and circulated. We learned that pregnancy could be described as "bellyful", "unlight ...

“What they have sounds very innovative,” he said. “It takes some people, especially the younger folks, a while to realize we are not Vikings. We are the spiritual descendants of Vikings and we have to ...