Tusker Rock, an island in the Bristol Channel just off the coast at Ogmore-by-Sea, took its name from Tuska, a Danish Viking ...
Thanks to the History Channel’s TV Show Vikings, Bjorn Ironside might be the most famous son of the legendary raider Ragnar ...
Olaf Tryggvason was a Norwegian Viking prince forced into exile. His challenging youth made him a formidable warrior who ...
After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...
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 ...