Life in England was about to change forever ... Ask the children to highlight the Viking place names on a local or regional map and begin to plot the extent of Viking settlement there.

The longest caption, and certainly the most discussed part of the map, claims that Viking adventurers reached American shores hundreds of years before Columbus. It was hardly the first such claim ...

Far surpassing contemporary English or Frankish vessels in lightness and efficiency, longships carried Viking raiders from northern England to north Africa. Viking expertise in naval craftsmanship ...

The city of York in north-east England is once again hosting Europe's biggest Viking celebration ... but it was really put on the map 800 years later when the Vikings invaded from Denmark and ...

The unique collection features more than 1,300 bone and antler objects that were found during excavations in a single town.

On this day in 2024, the Ipswich Star reported that a new book was set to be released, exploring the connection between Ipswich and the Viking world through its use of combs.