The three-quarter Norwegian, one-quarter German has no problem admitting his obsession with his ancestry. “My grandmother told me, ‘You’re a Norwegian, you’re a Viking,’” he said.

This insinuates that people of Scandinavian ancestry were in Britain before the Anglo-Saxon period (around 400 A.D. to 1,000 A.D.) and Viking period (around 800 A.D. to 1,000 A.D.). Genetic ...

The sequence of pictures illustrates the development of Scandinavian boats that were ancestors to the Viking longships. The long, slender hull is key to their performance. The top diagram is of a ...

The Nordic Bronze Age shaped Viking culture with trade, war, art, and music, as revealed in a 2025 symposium by top ...

Welbourne’s connection to Viking history is more than just academic — it’s personal. “My ancestors came to England with Harold Bluetooth, and I’m also connected to the Irish who fought ...

So I've come to a reconstruction of a house of the Vikings' ancestors, in Denmark to ask an expert how they coped. NEIL OLIVER:What kind of challenges faced farmers as the long, dark nights of ...