Researchers have investigated a large burial mound in Norway, measuring almost 200 feet across, that contains an ancient ship ...

Print Collector/Getty Images Forkbeard ruled England for just 40 days When Ailwin ... who was killed by Viking raiders in AD869 when he refused to turn away from Christianity.

The Saxon king Ethelred the Unready ordered "a most just extermination" of all the Danes in England following a resurgence in Viking raids. The mass grave was discovered in 2008 at St John's ...

The Viking warrior who ascended to become King of England, Denmark, and Norway, is a figure shrouded in both history and legend.

The word Viking means ‘a pirate raid’, which is a fitting name as ... a small band of Vikings sailed down theeastern coast of England. Their target was a monastery called Lindisfarne, and ...