Vikings are often imagined as a single Scandinavian people with a shared identity, yet the historical reality is far more ...

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Michael Hirst is getting back into the world of Vikings. Variety has learned that Michael and Horatio Hirst have set up the epic historical drama “Bloodaxe” at Amazon Prime Video. The series is said ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for reinterpretation. Over centuries, writers, politicians, and artists reshaped these ...

The third season of Netflix’s “Vikings: Valhalla” continues to be the historian’s answer to all those “Game of Thrones” fantasies: Populated with characters who actually existed, grittier (some might ...