Thanks to a 12th-century Danish historian, we have so many details about the Viking era to consume. Saxo Grammaticus was […] ...
Olaf Tryggvason was a Norwegian Viking prince forced into exile. His challenging youth made him a formidable warrior who ...
Birthe and Martin Biddle uncovered the body of a warrior in the churchyard at Repton. As well as sword, the body had been buried with a small Thor's hammer - the sign of the Viking god Thor ...
Amleth (who embodies the traditional hypermasculine Viking warrior ideal that dominates today's modern reimaginings of this ancient history) is partaking in the spoils of a violent raid on an ...
Life for a Viking warrior was usually brutal and short ... would have expected to be chosen to join Odin's warriors after death. Sagas and skaldic verse – poems composed at the courts of ...