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 ...

Vikings are often thought of as 'pure-bred', blonde-haired, and blue-eyed warriors who changed the course of European history. Now a team of international scientists has debunked this modern-day ...

Steinberg’s ongoing investigation of the turf house in Glaumbaer and other structures could well give Kristin and her friends rich new exploits of their Viking ancestors to act out. Viking ...

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 ...

Swimming With the Viking of Skye: A True Story of Overcoming Fear and Finding Hope by Richard Waters (Aurum £17.99, 255pp) You can see the appeal of the Vikings, and you don’t even have to ...

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 ...

Since most Vikings couldn’t read or write, sagas also had another important use. As well as remembering big battles in their stories, the sagas were used to record family history. These stories ...