A man who crafted a replica Viking shield in his garden shed before donating it to a museum on the Isle of Man said the process was a "labour of love". Chris Clayton, who lives in Rotherham and works ...

Top Medieval Historian Rates Vikings in Movies' Dr Cat Jarman, a historian and archaeologist specialising in the Viking Age, ...

As far as European history in North America goes, most people associate the earliest settlers with Christopher Columbus in the 15th century, or maybe the pilgrims coming to New England in the 1600s.

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 ...