After his death more than 1,000 years ago in what is now Poland, a European king has found himself in the middle of a heated ...

In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of ...

In Viking times, a king had to be strong to ... Duke William of Normandy and Harald Hardrada, the King of Norway, were not happy that Harold became king. They both believed they had a claim ...

In Iceland, archaeologists just unearthed a settlement that predates the Vikings' supposed arrival in the country by decades.

2024 marked the finale of the historical drama Vikings: Valhalla, as creator Jeb Stuart had confirmed that Vikings Valhalla season 4 is not on the cards. The show concluded with its third season, ...

Harald Bluetooth was born a Viking and is credited with unifying Denmark ... Bluetooth died in 987. The king was immortalised by Nordic technology firms when they embedded their wireless ...

Probably looted by Harold's army in 1066 at Stamford Bridge, from the defeated Viking army of Harald Hardrada.We can ... (translated from Old English as King's Stronghold). It could be evidence ...