The legendary Norse warriors(Viking warriors) with two horns on their heads, fearsome on land and on ships, could be… our Asian brothers, according to new evidence from ancient tombs. The research team led by missionary Eske Wilerslev from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) has sequenced the DNA of 400 sets of remains taken from many […]

The Vikings are world-famous for being brave and good warriors. However, scientists recently discovered they also cannot combat the effects of climate change. Experts have found evidence of large ice sheets and rising sea levels that flooded many Viking settlements in Greenland. Due to things getting worse and worse, the Vikings left the “motherland” of […]

The myth of the Vikings has long been associated with the image of large, belligerent warriors, ready to fight and plunder everything in their path, brutal pirates. Vikings lived between the late 8th and mid 11th centuries. A lot of things about the Vikings were misunderstood. They are a group of intelligent, civilized and hardworking […]

Viking, also called Norseman or Northman, member of the Scandinavian seafaring warriors who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the 9th to the 11th century and whose disruptive influence profoundly affected European history. These pagan Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish warriors were probably prompted to undertake their raids by a combination of factors ranging from overpopulation at home to the relative helplessness of victims abroad. […]

A Timeline of Scandinavian History Centering Upon the Viking Age Prehistoric Period 4000 B.C. to 100 B.C. Date Event 4000 B.C. Indo-European migrations begin starting in the regions around the Caspian Sea or Southern Steppes of Russia 1500 B.C. BRONZE AGE begins in Scandinavia. 1000 B.C. Proto-Germanic peoples settle in the general area of modern Scandinavia […]