Thanks to the History Channel’s TV Show Vikings, Bjorn Ironside might be the most famous son of the legendary raider Ragnar ...

Tusker Rock, an island in the Bristol Channel just off the coast at Ogmore-by-Sea, took its name from Tuska, a Danish Viking ...

Later in his life the young King Alfred had to hide from the Vikings on a marshy island called Athelney, in Somerset. A famous story tells how, while sheltering in a cowherd's hut, the king got a ...

The late 9th Century coin was found by a metal detectorist near Thetford earlier this year A rare coin minted by a Viking warlord after he became a Christian king is "the first in the country" to ...