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

Far surpassing contemporary English or Frankish vessels in lightness and efficiency, longships carried Viking raiders from northern England to north Africa. Viking expertise in naval craftsmanship ...

Chronicles state a "large heathen army" began to hack its way across England in AD866 ... the Vikings went from ferocious raiders to an invading force - the Viking Great Army had arrived.

For centuries—indeed, ever since Viking raiders savagely attacked England's Lindisfarne monastery in A.D. 793—the Vikings have seemed to many to have been little more than blue-eyed barbarians ...

He ruled from 871 – 899. At the start of his reign, he ruled over Wessex, in the west of England. He defeated several Viking raids, and eventually signed an agreement, making peace with Vikings ...

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