If you're the skeptical type, you might raise an eyebrow when you hear that a particular Viking ship was built ... Dendrochronologists showed that an ancient wooden road uncovered in southwestern ...

Lindisfarne established a pattern of Viking hit-and-run ... That brought us face to face with the Viking presence. The rest is history.” The entry for the year 874 in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ...

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 ...

And you can see here that the wear pattern is on that side ... At Jarlshof in Shetland he finds evidence of an ancient Viking settlement including the remains of a farm and he’s shown some ...

one plain silver pendant and two silver-gilt pendants decorated with ribbon pattern in Scandinavian style. It dates from around 875-900 AD, the time of Alfred the Great and the Danish (Viking ...