On the Wednesday following the last Tuesday in January, Shetland shuts down. It is the only place in Scotland to have an ...

A large house or farm stood there from around 1350, according to lokalhistoriewiki.no (link in Norwegian). In 1602, Christian ...

A large house or farm stood there from around 1350, according to lokalhistoriewiki.no (link in Norwegian). In 1602, Christian ...

350 BC Hjortspring boat, akin to a Scandinavian Bronze Age type boat, with a side view drawing of the boat under full crew inserted above. Photo by Knut Valbjørn. Credit: Boel Bengtsson, CC-BY 4.0 Sea ...

Watertown author Tom Acitelli wants you to know there’s real meaning behind the title of his latest book, “The Golden Age of Beer: A 52-Week Guide to the Perfect Beer for Every Week of the ...

showing they were skilled seafarers who regularly traveled between present-day Denmark and Norway. These long-distance voyages likely took place centuries before the well-known Viking Age began, ...

Two Viking era stone grave markers thought to be 1,000 years old have been put on display in a church in the north of the Isle of Man. The carved monuments, known as the Manx crosses, were ...

He said: "This is a public event which welcomes people of all ages to come and experience an ancient Viking age market village. "The craft festival will be hosting around 35 different crafts ...

The latest simulations showed that Bronze Age people likely had the ability to travel directly from Denmark to Norway over the open ocean. These trips, scientists say, would have required a boat ...

Öland, once a key trading post for Sweden during the Viking Age, is the country's second-largest island and sits off the southeast coast of the mainland, surrounded by the Baltic Sea. On the ...