Archaeologist Greer Jarrett spent three years piloting a small sailboat along the coast of Norway to understand Viking trade ...

On a foggy morning off Norway’s craggy coast, a square-rigged clinker boat—a descendant of Viking craft—glided between ...

Vikings apparently traded furs, amber ... “by hundreds of boats.” History does not record whether the Vikings, more than a millennium ago, were similarly greeted by their own vessels, bearing ...

Since 2022, Jarrett and his intrepid crews have navigated multiple voyages aboard an open, square-rigged clinker boat built ...

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Clearly, the Vikings had a remarkable talent for making history, but for decades many scholars focused on the men of the North, assuming they were the only seafarers, pillagers, and traders.

Archaeologists finally solve mystery behind oldest tombstone in US belonging to English knight The analysis suggested the ancient Norse had more trade dealings with indigenous Arctic populations ...

Vikings were seafarers, traders, and raiders that settled northwestern ... on most of the skeletons—meaning DNA analyses on ancient material,” said Sarah Croix, an archaeologist at Aarhus ...

a period in medieval history between roughly the late 8th and 11th centuries when the Vikings—a Scandinavian seafaring people—raided, colonized and traded widely across Europe and beyond.

The Viking age, spanning the 8th to 11th centuries AD, saw Norsemen journey from Scandinavia aboard timber longships to stage raids, trade and settle across a wide region, including North America ...

The only real evidence comes from a 10th century travel account by an Arab traveler and trader named Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, whose travel account, Mission to the Volga, describes the Swedish Viking ...