Vikings
Explore the mysterious ancient world of the Vikings. In this section we examine great Viking rulers, Vikings ships and navigation, battles, archaeological discoveries, Viking traditions and culture, mysterious ancient artifacts, powerful Viking symbols and the significance of Norse mythology in relation to ancient Vikings.
You will find here all you need to know about history of ancient Vikings.
Vikings Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Viking Gjermundbu helmet is one of the most valuable Viking Age artifacts ever discovered. Over the years, archaeologists have discovered many precious Viking
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Mobility shaped the human world profoundly long before the modern age. But archaeologists often struggle to create a timeline for the speed and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For decades, historians have debated whether an infamously violent Viking torture ritual ever really happened, or if it was a misunderstood or embellished
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - At Gjellestad in Norway, archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) have found a 60-meter longhouse. There is no longer
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - If you were a Viking warrior, you didn't paint your shield with just any color. Picking the right color was not a matter
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - About 1,000 years ago, two Vikings from the same family traveled abroad to fight. One of the Viking warriors went to England where
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The strength of archaeology is filling in history gaps and confirming mythical events as authentic. One should be careful and not dismiss myths and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New detailed surveys of Viking age ship settings in Hjarnø, Denmark have been completed by archaeologists examining the origins and makeup of the
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Civilizations
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings left an everlasting legacy in Ireland. While you are in Ireland, you can visit archaeological places where battles between Vikings and the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Valsgärde is a large Viking burial cemetery located not far from Uppsala in Sweden. Today it’s just a name few, even in Sweden
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - If Vikings were alive today, they would be surprised and perhaps even a little flattered to see how the world has taken an
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Norwegian archaeologists have good reason to be excited about this latest discovery. With help of ground penetrating radar device scientists have discovered 15
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The riddle of Norumbega has never been solved. Maybe there isn't anything to solve because it's possible this legendary place never existed. On
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When a strange prophecy is fulfilled, we can either call it a coincidence or simply say we believe it’s possible to predict future
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When you’re an archaeologist you may have to wait a long time before you find something of historical value. Norwegian archaeologists had been
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It’s a race against time and there isn’t much time left to uncover the secrets of a rare Norwegian Viking ship burial before
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are still many beautiful Viking Age treasures waiting to be discovered and one of them has just been unearthed on a farm
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Destruction of historical and archaeological sites happens much too often. This time a huge Viking burial complex in Norway has become the victim
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Civilizations
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In a careful interdisciplinary study of rare shields finds, researchers are finally able to reveal the last piece of the puzzle of how
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - How many more stunning unknown runestones could still be scattered across Sweden? We cannot answer that question, but we can say with certainty
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Have you ever wanted to listen to ancient Scandinavian music? If so, now is your chance. A group of talented musicians from Sweden
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A fascinating DNA study of more than 400 Viking skeletons has just re-written history. Today we know with certainty some Vikings were not
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Found in the 1950s by workmen digging pipe trenches in Chapel Yard, Yarm, near the River Tees, in the UK, this ancient helmet
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are not many Viking ship burials in Sweden, or anywhere else for that matter. Viking ship burials are rare finds and whenever
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings were masters of the oceans. They traveled far and reached new lands because their longships were fast and could sail in shallow
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The investigation of the giant Gjellestad Viking ship burial continues. When scientists examined remnants of the mound that surrounds the ship, they discovered
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Anyone with the slightest knowledge of Viking Age history will know the Vikings were excellent craftsmen and merchants who established successful relationships and
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Erik the Red was a famous Viking today remembered for colonizing Greenland and being the father of the great Viking explorer Leif Erikson. Credit: Adobe Stock
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Cnut The Great (in Swedish: "Knut den Store") became king over large parts of northern Europe, where commerce and culture flourished in his
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - We associate all these names – Ragnar Lodbrok, Ivar the Boneless, Bjorn Ironside, Erik the Red, Eric "Bloodaxe" Haraldsson - with courageous and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Jarlshof is an ancient settlement near Sumburgh Head, the southern tip of the Shetland Mainland in northern Scotland. It is one of the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In Norse mythology, there are many references to a creature known as Draugr, often described as a fearsome, ugly living dead who would rise from
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Völva was a mighty female shaman and seer in Norse mythology. She held an important place in the ancient Viking society, and her
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Norse mythology, Nidhogg (also (Nithog, Nidhögg) is the corpse-eating dragon that lives entwined around Yggdrasil’s foot. Nidhogg is stalking in the roots of
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Vikings lived in large families that included parents, children, and grandparents. When the eldest son took over the estate, he became head
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hundreds of rare and well-preserved artifacts have been revealed by the retreating mountain glaciers in the region of Lendbreen in Innlandet County, Norway.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Modern technology gives us a superb opportunity to look through the eyes of ancient people. Virtual tours like this one can take us
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – One of the most famous runestones, the Rök stone reveals Vikings feared climate change. Located in Östergötland County, Sweden, the - Rök Stone (in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A high-resolution georadar has detected traces of a ship burial and a settlement that probably dates to the Viking Period at Edøy in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two people died roughly 100 years apart. Nevertheless, they were buried together - in boats. In the second half of the 9th century,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Located in the Baltic Sea, Saaremaa is the largest Estonian island. Archaeologists can now investigate two large hoards of silver coin that will offer
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - School children in Sweden have accomplished what adults failed to do. A group of fifth-grade students deciphered runes that were previously impossible to
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