Last fall, a Swedish man spotted something in a marsh on Oland, Sweden’s second-largest island. At first, he thought the ...

Viking raiders prowled the coasts of Britain and Europe, striking with ... lying as it did along the northern edge of medieval agriculture. In Sweden’s Uppland region, for example, nearly ...

Researchers in Sweden just uncovered the remains of three 8th to 11th-century Viking women whose skulls were elongated into ...

Swift and deadly, the Vikings dominated the seas of northern Europe from the late eighth century to the 11th. Sails were adopted in Scandinavia by approximately the seventh century. Only fragments ...

a "Viking Age settlement" located outside Stockholm, according to a press release from The Archaeologists at the National Historical Museums in Sweden. "They looked almost completely new," said ar ...

The new research, however, illuminated the departure of groups that migrated from Northern ... eastern limits of Europe, ...

A person visited a wetland in Öland and found a 1,000-year-old iron armband, officials said. Photos show the highly decorated Viking jewelry. Google Street View ...

Early Germanic tribes of northern Europe were first to develop runes, but the Scandinavians soon adopted the symbols for their own use. When the seafaring Vikings traveled to faraway lands ...