Of all the esteemed warriors in Viking history, few reached the renown of Björn Ironside. Like his father, Ragnar Lothbrok, ...

Berserkr' is an Old Norse word meaning 'bear skin' and berserkers were Viking warriors who went into battle wearing wolf or bear skins. Berserkers believed that Odin, the god of war, gave them ...

An investigation into Viking skeletons reveals a hidden story of violence, power, and the surprising differences between ...

Amleth (who embodies the traditional hypermasculine Viking warrior ideal that dominates ... prehistory pieced together through thousand-year-old archeological finds, isn't as hard of a science ...

Plus, we still use some of their Old Norse language today ... But not all the Vikings were bloodthirsty warriors. Some came to fight, but others came peacefully, to settle. They were farmers ...