Study suggests tribes moved to Scandinavia centuries before raiders from the north attacked Lindisfarne in 793AD ...

Back in the first millennium A.D., waves of human migration across Europe created an elaborate genetic puzzle that researchers have now started to unravel with a leap in DNA analysis. An enhanced look ...

Valhalla, the brief yet intriguing appearance of Erik the Red leaves many questions unanswered about his true legacy. While ...

Germanic-speaking people move north into Scandinavia before the Viking Age The team then used the method to uncover a later additional northward wave of migration into Scandinavia at the end of ...

They applied the new method to over 1500 European genomes (a person’s complete set of DNA) from people who lived primarily during the first millennium AD (year 1 to 1000), encompassing the Iron Age, ...

These Vikings were also the great international traders of the 9th and 10th centuries: ...

The study also found evidence of a northward wave of migration into Scandinavia at the end of the Iron Age, between 300 and 800AD, just before the Viking Age. Many Viking Age people across ...

These separate genetic signatures have persisted to this day, revealing separate migration paths and challenging previous notions of homogeneity among Viking settlers. Interestingly, the lack of ...

Researchers identified a Roman-era gladiator or soldier with partial Scandinavian ancestry, offering evidence of significant migrations long before the Viking Age. Using an innovative DNA analysis ...

Vikings have long had a special place in British lore (Picture: Getty Images) The Vikings were, among other things, Nordic raiders, plunderers and slaughterers intent on conquering England.