In a nutshell An ancient Viking ring inscription, previously thought to require payment of fines in both oxen AND silver, ...

Men dressed as Vikings for a fire festival in Shetland, Scotland, in January. A thousand years ago, ... [+] at least in Sweden, Vikings had surprisingly sophisticated dental habits, new research ...

Sweden, renowned for its wealth of Viking rune stones and rock carvings, boasts the world’s largest collection of these historic artifacts. These standing stones, dating back to between the 9th ...

Less well known are the Vikings of Sweden. Now, the archaeological site of Fröjel on Gotland, a large island in the Baltic Sea around 50 miles east of the Swedish mainland, is helping advance a ...

This could be seen near the eastern limits of Europe, where researchers identified ancestry from Sweden in Viking Age individuals who lived in what is now Ukraine and Russia. On the opposite side of ...

The Stone Age ended in Sweden around 1800 B.C., according to ... The burials were dated to between 800 and 1050 A.D. — the ...

The Vikings did not reach the end zone. What does skol mean when people say it? “Skol” (or “skål” as it’s written in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish and “skál” in Faroese and ...