the Oseberg ship (above), the best preserved Viking ship ever found, reveals its Norse shipbuilders' graceful construction style. Next, the boatbuilders affixed evenly spaced floor timbers to the ...

A new study suggests that medieval stone discs found in Ukraine were likely used by Vikings as solar compasses to navigate ...

They have often speculated that it could be a Spanish galleon, but perhaps Doug has now spotted evidence that it is a Viking ...

Aboard these ships, northern lords and their restless ... as their exploration of the New World. According to the Norse sagas, Viking mariners sailed westward from Greenland in four major ...

Those ships were found on the western side of the ... as well as Norse words and names. The Norse Vikings ventured to Iceland and some then settled in Greenland and Vinland in North America ...

According to Norse mythology, the god Freyr owned a ship ... rather than cutting through it, like Viking ships and modern ships. Other European ships also tended to be tall, with superstructures ...

The recent sensational discoveries of Viking ship graves in Norway have captured ... there’s a treasure trove of Norse history already visible and accessible, offering a fascinating glimpse ...

Although the original Vikings have long become extinct, their genes can still be found today. People from Norway, Sweden, and ...

The name 'Viking' comes from a language called 'Old Norse'. It means ‘a pirate raid’. People who went off raiding in ships were said to be 'going Viking'. But not all the Vikings were ...

But while your ship may be a wreck ... you’ll have to wait a little while to earn your Norse credentials. Viking Dynasty is pencilled in for a late 2025 Steam Early Access release, but it ...

Countless sailing experiments with replica ships continue to confirm the excellence of Viking ship design ... of the Icelandic sagas—narratives of Norse history and legends written in Iceland ...