Of all the esteemed warriors in Viking history, few reached the renown of Björn Ironside. Like his father, Ragnar Lothbrok, Björn appears frequently in old Viking legends and Scandinavian ...

An unidentified man found the armlet in a wetland last fall. Kalmar County Administrative Board. Last fall, a Swedish man ...

Berserkr' is an Old Norse word meaning 'bear skin' and berserkers were Viking warriors who went into battle wearing wolf or bear skins. Berserkers believed that Odin, the god of war, gave them ...

Amleth (who embodies the traditional hypermasculine Viking warrior ideal that dominates ... prehistory pieced together through thousand-year-old archeological finds, isn't as hard of a science ...

Plus, we still use some of their Old Norse language today ... But not all the Vikings were bloodthirsty warriors. Some came to fight, but others came peacefully, to settle. They were farmers ...

Your browser does not support the video element. "Game of Thrones" actor Hafthor Bjornsson recently broke a 1,000 year-old Viking record for strength by carrying a 32 ...

it's almost easy to forget that there was one Viking-focused action film that was released in 1999: The 13th Warrior, starring Antonio Banderas and directed by John McTiernan. To be fair ...

But it turned out to be a Viking Age iron arm bracelet that could be more than 1,000 years old. After the anonymous ... The Vikings were a group of Scandinavian warriors who violently colonized ...