“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pregnancy was deeply political and far from uniform in meaning for Viking-age communities. It shaped – and was shaped by – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...