Many adorn their bodies with tattoos, and some adopt a Viking diet, slaughtering and roasting ... Still standing a thousand years after it was raised, the rune stone at Anundshög in Sweden ...

Each rune not only represents a phonetic sound but also has its own distinct meaning often connected with Norse mythology (see clickable alphabet at left). Scholars believe that early peoples used ...

Consider this, dear reader, would you ever get a tattoo? No? Quite sensible ... delicate script written indelibly up their arm or Norse runes snaking their way up their calf?

If you can’t unravel,” she said with a jolly laugh, “you can’t knit.” It was a counterintuitive way of spending a vacation in ...

According to experts, the findings are proof of a "large and powerful" Viking farm on the land. "This is a unique finding, because we very rarely find such objects exactly where they were laid ...

The mysterious Rök stone, one of the world’s most famous runestones, was raised in the ninth Century in Sweden and contains the longest runic inscription ... alludes to a Viking fear very ...

This was useful for helping to decide who could inherit land and wealth. Image caption, Viking runes were scratched on to the walls at the Maeshowe neolithic burial chamber on Orkney by Vikings ...

Not all the revellers seem family-friendly: there are a few furtive types sporting Norse rune tattoos and “Germany unbent” T-shirts. Others shoo away journalists seeking interviews with a curt ...

A cryptic video on Monday's episode of "WWE Raw" may be alluding to the return of a popular tag team that has been on the shelf for quite some time. During the broadcast, a video vignette was ...

Archaeologist Cat Jarman, a Viking Age specialist, joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Vikings. When did the Viking Age begin? How do we know about the Vikings?

Viking Therapeutics has two exciting pipeline candidates. The biotech could deliver excellent returns in the next five years if these programs perform well. There are also some risks to consider ...