Two major Viking Age museums are the highlight of a visit to Ribe, the oldest town in Denmark and a must-visit on any tour of ...

“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 ...

Discover 2,000 years of history amid the picturesque streets of York. A Roman fortress, then a Viking stronghold, followed by a Medieval wool-trading center, then an Industrial railway hub ...

The medieval Church of St ... 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 reads: “This year went ...

The Crimean War’s Lessons for War and Peace in Ukraine They had a large hand in setting the contours of medieval Europe and ... clearly doesn’t have enough Viking movies, so here is The ...

Vikings had indeed reached the coast of America five centuries before Columbus. Now those medieval sagas look ready ... will shed more light on the early history of European exploration of North ...