Vikings & Norse Mythology
Step into the enigmatic world of the Vikings, where legendary rulers, daring voyages, epic battles, and astonishing archaeological finds await. Discover age-old traditions, puzzling artifacts, mighty symbols, and the deep influence of Norse mythology on Viking life.
Here, you will uncover everything you ever wanted to know about Viking history and the captivating tales of Norse mythology.
Vikings Archive
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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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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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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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 much interest the world has
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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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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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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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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The last confrontation between friends of the gods and their enemies will occur in the field of Vigrid on the day of Ragnarok. Naglfar
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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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Vikings
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. Erik the Red's
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Featured Stories
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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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Völva was a mighty female shaman and seer in Norse mythology. She held an important place in ancient Viking society, and her powers
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Old Norse mythology, the Norns were 'Shapers of Destiny.' These goddesses ruled people's fates, determining their destinies and lifespans. The Norns were the
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Featured Stories
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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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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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Norse mythology, Ullr (also known as Ullr, Uller) is a patron of winter, a handsome skier, skater, hunter, and an excellent archer. His
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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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