Read more: Rick Steves' Most And Least Favorite Places In Europe Visiting Njardarheimr is a chance to immerse yourself in the real Viking experience. The village is a piece of living history ...

Now, thanks to modern archaeology and a healthy dose of scientific sleuthing, we're uncovering the real ... history and culture of the past from them? There's no shortage of things the Vikings ...

“In many respects the Vikings were the medieval equivalent of organized crime,” says Simon Keynes, a professor of Anglo-Saxon history at Cambridge University. “They engaged in extortion on a ...

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 ...

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 ...

to commemorate the 1,000-year anniversary of the Vikings’ arrival in North America, the expansion to Greenland and Vinland (Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, 2000). By focusing on the ...

As history shows. VIKING:Stop. NEIL OLIVER:'As well as exploring and traveling along the rivers, east across Russia, the Vikings also explored new lands far to the West, across the vast North ...

He spent eight years over two stints with the Vikings, and that was enough for him to climb to second place in franchise history with 587 receptions, 9,316 yards and 92 touchdown catches.