It’s easy to say now that paying the Vikings to go away ‘didn’t work’. But this obscures the fact paying off one Viking band didn’t ensure another would stop coming.
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The Vikings are big draw for tourists and museums struggle to balance the real history.
This mysterious Viking-age hoard lay buried for more than a millenium. Unearthed by an amateur metal detectorist, it is now on show in Sydney.
The island’s history was marked by mixture and cultural reinvention.
From the 750s on, the Vikings’ advanced shipbuilding technology helped give them the edge.
To what extent has the line between playful community space and commercial spectacle been blurred?
Most stories of the Vikings and their gods focus on men. It’s time for the women to take centre stage: from giantesses to bad-arse shieldmaidens.
The standard drink was far more likely to be ale.
New analysis of silver items in the Bedale hoard reveals Scandinavians travelled to the east to trade much earlier than previously thought.
Despite its central role in human history, pregnancy has often been overlooked in archaeology.
King Cnut has the dubious honour of being the first person recorded in English history to have been disturbed by something frustratingly urgent just as he was about to enjoy a bath.
A marketplace argument led to the emergence of a key eyewitness account of a Viking burial on the Volga river
Agricultural sustainability is as much about power and sovereignty as it is about soil, water and crops.
The Settlers of Catan codified a certain kind of game play based on the history of settler colonialism.
Not a simple tale of English kings overcoming Vikings, the creation of England involved far more bureaucracy than the epic legends let on
The findings suggest that the depth of the relationships Viking-age people had with animals have been dramatically underrepresented.
Fighting in sieges, an army of crack female troops, cross-dressing as male soldiers: women have survived and thrived as part of the war machine. But they’re rarely included in military histories.
The genetic study challenges previous theories about the origins and culture of the Picts.
Ancient tales of gods and heroes and medieval Scandinavia help us make sense of things like masculinity, betrayal, revenge and the end of the world.
DNA analysis reveals a large migration of people into Scandinavia during Viking times.
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