SCOTS ARCHAEOLOGISTS DIGGING FOR TWO VIKING BOAT BURIAL SITES ON ISLE OF MULLL
Scots archaeologists will start digging where two possible Viking boat burial sites are thought to be hidden on the Isle of Mull...
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Livros Vikings
- Aug 30, 2022
- 4 min
ICELAND’S ANCIENT CAVES REVEAL THE ISLAND’S VIKING EARLY HISTORY
Iceland’s early viking settlers built extensive cave systems to survive...
Livros Vikings
- Aug 22, 2022
- 3 min
A 1,500-YEAR-OLD PRE-VIKING ARROW AND A VIKING ARROW ARE FOUND IN NORWAY
Norwegian explorers have found two arrows, after it was left exposed by melting ice...
Livros Vikings
- Aug 10, 2022
- 2 min
DONE! HEREFORDSHIRE VIKING HOARD TO 'COME HOME' AFTER FUNDRAISER
A hoard of Viking treasure has been bought by a council's museum service...
Livros Vikings
- Aug 4, 2022
- 4 min
THE VIKING AGE'S DERRYNAFLAN HOARD
One of the most exciting archaeological finds in the history of Irish art was unearthed on Tipperary's Derrynaflan Island by a man and...
Livros Vikings
- Jul 14, 2022
- 5 min
THE LOST VIKING VILLAGE OF KAUPANG
Kaupang was a harbor town supposedly located within the larger district known in the literature as “Skiringssal”...
Livros Vikings
- Jul 7, 2022
- 2 min
VIKING VILLAGE ATTRACTION WAS APPROVED BY ISLE OF MAN
The project will provide an interactive experience for visitors to glimpse the island's Norse history...
Livros Vikings
- Jun 27, 2022
- 8 min
IN JUNE OF 793AD, THE VIKINGS ATTACKED LINDISFARNE, KNOW HOW IT WAS
One such day was the 8 June, 793. That was the day the Vikings attacked the monastery at Lindisfarne...
Livros Vikings
- Jun 24, 2022
- 2 min
GOVERNMENT U-TURN SAVES NEW VIKING AGE MUSEUM, WILL IT BE?
Norway's Viking ships can finally look forward to an improved home following the government's change of heart on funding...
Livros Vikings
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
OSLO’S FAMOUS VIKING SHIPS AT RISK AS DEMANDS BUDGET CUTS
Ten years ago, experts concluded that the three world-famous Viking ships on display at Oslo’s Viking Ship Museum needed a new home...
Livros Vikings
- Apr 19, 2022
- 10 min
THE REAL-HISTORY OF THE FAMOUS VIKING SIEGES OF PARIS
Ninth-century France proved very lucrative for the Vikings. It was a land marred by civil war and bad harvests, and the Norsemen took adv...
Livros Vikings
- Apr 8, 2022
- 4 min
THE PERFECTLY PRESERVED VIKING WEAVER’S SWORD
The Weaver’s Sword is a Viking artefact, believed to date to the late 11th century...
Livros Vikings
- Mar 28, 2022
- 3 min
£776,250 FUNDRAISER LAUNCHED TO BRING VIKING EARLY MEDIEVAL TREASURE BACK HOME
A campaign has been launched to raise £776,250 to bring a history-changing Viking hoard that was discovered in a field near the south Shr...
Livros Vikings
- Mar 24, 2022
- 3 min
A VIKING SETTLEMENT MYSTERIOUSLY VANISHED. NOW, WE HAVE AN ANSWER
Scientists pinpoint drought as a likely cause for the abandonment of Greenland's Norse communities...
Livros Vikings
- Mar 11, 2022
- 5 min
THE HISTORY OF THE VIKINGS IN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND
An app developed by academics at the University of Liverpool aims to change that, and to reveal how important Lancashire and Lakeland were..
Livros Vikings
- Feb 2, 2022
- 2 min
NORTHAMPTON DEBUT FOR VIKING EXHIBITION WITH REPLICA LONGBOAT
Valhalla at Northampton Museum & Art Gallery will explore Viking attitudes to life and death through 1,000-year-old artefacts...
Livros Vikings
- Oct 20, 2021
- 4 min
VIKINGS WERE IN THE AMERICAS EXACTLY A THOUSAND YEARS AGO
The Vikings used their longships to cross the Atlantic Ocean and settled in Canada as early as 1021, according to a new study providing...
Livros Vikings
- Sep 14, 2021
- 2 min
CROSSMICHAEL SET TO PLAY HOST TO SPECIAL VIKING ENCAMPMENT
An encampment will be created in Crossmichael later this month with members of the public given the chance to visit and enjoy craft and...
Livros Vikings
- Aug 26, 2021
- 4 min
KNOW THE FAROE ISLANDS, FAMOUS BY THE STRONG VIKING PRESENCE.
The forebears of current inhabitants are the Vikings - specifically the Norsemen who started settling these inhospitable islands around...
Livros Vikings
- Aug 17, 2021
- 3 min
THE IRISH ISLAND OF A VIKING KING
Turgesius was a Viking king who laid waste to many churches in the north Midlands...
Livros Vikings
- Aug 16, 2021
- 4 min
THE VIKING AGE SPAIN
While Roman, Visigothic and Muslim heritages all live on today in varying degrees, the legacy of the Vikings in Spain is more obscure...
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