The longest caption, and certainly the most discussed part of the map, claims that Viking adventurers reached American shores hundreds of years before Columbus. It was hardly the first such claim ...

A stunning and informative graphic from the National Post. Why are we doing this? How can we possibly afford it? Over to you, Bill Kauffman. This is a good place to commend to you my TAC colleague ...

The Vikings are often portrayed as illiterate ... commercial contacts between the Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire during the first century A.D. exposed the former to the Latin alphabet.

This discovery also further puts the nation on the Viking map. “The find emphasizes that ... that this was the early days of the Viking empire, which survived until approximately 1066 ...

Many, says Murasheva, were bound for the Black Sea and Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire and a city of more than 800,000 people at the time. In the heat and dust Viking traders ...

Cnut was a strong ruler and England became part of his Viking empire, later along with Denmark and Norway. Image caption, One story tells how King Cnut stood on the shore and commanded the sea to ...

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Ten years ago, a Viking-era artifact was unearthed in Scotland ... tracing it back to a long-lost empire thousands of miles away, according to a Sept. 1 news release from the National Museums ...

Vikings fans aren't usually happy when Vilma calls games after he was on the Bountygate New Orleans Saints team in 2009. If you want to watch the game, you will have a chance iif you live in one ...

More than a decade after Volgarr the Viking’s chaotic, challenging debut, the barbarian king’s story continues in an uncompromising new form. Volgarr the Viking II is a hardcore, 2D action ...

Cnut was a strong ruler and England became part of his Viking empire, later along with Denmark and Norway. Image caption, One story tells how King Cnut stood on the shore and commanded the sea to ...