The Vikings and Celts are two fascinating groups of people who lived in Europe at various times in history. Today, scholars and historians love to study them both, and there are plenty of movies...
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Ragnar Lodbrok is one of the most well-known figures from Viking lore. However, much of what is known about him has been sourced from legends, and there is even some dispute about whether such a...
The Vikings were pioneering explorers and seafarers. They traveled widely, establishing settlements and trade routes that would influence human history for centuries. Because pillaging from other...
Most contemporary representations portray Vikings as exclusively Scandinavian in their ethnicity, but is the image of the blonde, blue-eyed Viking accurate? Or does it derive from modern European...
Between the 8th and 11th centuries A.D., Norse pirates known as Vikings ravaged many parts of Northern Europe in search of treasure, women, slaves, and lands to settle. Inevitably, they developed...
As much as people today love the Vikings, there's little surviving information written by them that accurately depicts their lives and culture. Instead, almost everything scholars know about...