If you're fascinated by Viking culture, there's one destination you should be sure to add to your list, set in a breathtaking ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

Öland was once a key trading post for Sweden, especially during the Viking age. The country’s second-largest island sits off ...

History, particularly prehistory pieced together ... Most likely, though, it's just the same lack of imagination that turned real Viking women into a myth. Jess is an LA-based culture critic ...

5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new ...

A must-visit for Viking Age enthusiasts, the Stavanger region's Norse legacy is celebrated in monuments, museums, and a modern VR experience.

Want to "walk" through a real Viking village? The sequences below from the NOVA film "The Vikings" offer a fascinating and unprecedented look at Birka, a medieval Viking village that archeologists ...