Plus, we still use some of their Old Norse language today. Words like ‘egg’, ‘muck’ and ‘dirt’. Even some modern town names are based on Viking words! York and places that end in ...

While there’s certainly no shortage of ancient Viking lore enthusiasts ... The Poetic Edda is an ancient collection of Old Norse narrative poems in alliterative verse. A must-read for academics ...

The identity of skeletal remains discovered in a well at Norway's Sverresborg castle has been linked to an ancient Norse text, according to researchers. The 800-year-old Sverris saga, which ...

Viking Age Norse people seeking walrus ivory in the High Arctic may have encountered Indigenous North Americans hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus "discovered" the continent ...

The corpse referenced in the 800-year-old Norse book Sverris Saga may have been proven to be a real person. The story went that a body was thrown into a well to pollute the water supply of a ...

Satellite images have led archaeologists to a new excavation site in Canada, yielding more clues to Norse settlements in ... sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled ...

Courtesy of Manx National Heritage A collection of 1,000-year-old Viking Age ... discovered remains of Viking burial mounds and settlements there, as well as various Norse artifacts.

It was considered a very elite gift." Related: Epic 11-foot-tall sea level rise drove Vikings out of Greenland The Norse eventually decimated the walrus population of Iceland, and had to sail to ...

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(CNN) — Researchers have connected the identity of skeletal remains found in a well at Norway’s Sverresborg castle to a passage in a centuries-old Norse text. The 800-year-old Sverris saga ...

Researchers have connected the identity of skeletal remains found in a well at Norway’s Sverresborg castle to a passage in a centuries-old Norse text. The 800-year-old Sverris saga, which ...