The Vikings and Vikings: Valhalla might be history, but that's not stopping Michael Hirst, the creator of both shows, from ...

Discovered in Norway in 1906, the Oseberg ship (above), the best preserved Viking ship ever found, reveals its Norse shipbuilders' graceful construction style. Next, the boatbuilders affixed ...

Amazon’s Prime Video has greenlit Bloodaxe, a series that will track the rise of Viking warrior Erik Bloodaxe and his wife, Gunnhild, known as the Mother of Kings. Hirst and his son, Horatio Hirst, ...

This online mythology course is an introduction to the religion of the Vikings as it is recorded in Old Norse and Scandinavian literature from the medieval period. You will learn about the different ...

The Isle of Man is home to over one hundred Viking Age carved crosses ... One side of this stone shows the Norse god Odin being devoured by Fenris the wolf at the Battle of Ragnorok - the fight ...

The Vikings were brutal ... and 'a most vile people'. Yet the Norse raiders had a culture as rich and complex as their Christian victims. They believed in a universe made up of nine worlds ...

Much less is known about Viking navigation methods on the high seas, although one of the Icelandic sagas—narratives of Norse history and legends written in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries ...