ROSKILDE, Denmark (AP) — For thousands of years, wooden sailboats allowed the peoples of Northern Europe to spread trade, influence and sometimes war across seas and continents. In December, the ...

Gabríel Ólafs drew inspiration from Viking tunes for his album Lullabies for Piano and Cello, featuring cellist Steiney Sigurðardóttir. While strolling in his home city of Reykjavik last year, Gabríel ...

Forget what you think you know about Vikings, because chances are, it isn't true. They didn't pillage and plunder. (Well, not all of them, anyway.) And they most definitely didn't wear pointy metal ...

A clinker-boat master craftsman and his apprentice work on a vessel destined for Faroese waters at the Viking Museum Roskilde near Copenhagen, Denmark on June 10, 2024. (Lasse Sørensen/Courthouse News ...

Local leaders in the Danish municipalities Jutland, Funen and Zealand have joined forces to seek protected heritage status for five ring forts from the Viking era. The circular fortresses are some of ...

Co Laois is gearing up for a lively June Bank Holiday weekend, with vintage engines roaring through country roads, Vikings taking over village streets, and family friendly festivals drawing visitors ...

The only historically accurate information about Vikings generally comes as a footnote in history books that mentions in passing Leif Ericson's voyage to North America 500 years before Columbus made ...