The Vikings may be best known for raiding and sailing, but now their eating habits are also drawing attention. The "Viking diet" — sometimes called the "Nordic diet" — is rooted in what Norse people ...

In an accidental find, a 10th-century burial site believed to have belonged to a Viking noble family has been discovered in northern Denmark, packed with a "spectacular" trove of ancient objects, a ...

The figurine is a little more than an inch tall. Roberto Fortuna / National Museum of Denmark Curator Peter Pentz was exploring the vast archives of Denmark’s National Museum when he stumbled upon an ...

Hair parted in the middle, cropped at the back, with a wavy lock styled above one ear. That’s not my haircut of choice, but if you were an elite Viking, it may well have been. That’s the upshot of a ...

Denmark's National Museum has unveiled what it described as the first "portrait" of a Viking: a miniature 10th-century figurine depicting a man with an imperial moustache, braided beard and ...