Famously, the Viking period is usually marked by the raid on Lindisfarne, a small island off the northeastern ... which were essential items during Medieval Europe, Sindbæk explains. Those trade ...

Men of low status might not have been the only members of Viking cultures seeking to go on raids. Powerful men would likely want to support, fund and lead raids to acquire plunder, in order to ...

Combs carved from animal antlers, as well as comb manufacturing waste and raw antler material has turned up at three archaeological sites in Denmark, including a medieval marketplace in the city ...

the site of an early medieval trading post. The chronology of events at Ribe reveals a less violent start for Viking voyages, at least 50 years before the Lindisfarne raid. The secret of Viking ...

One of the Vikings' first raids was on a wealthy monastery in the ... an associate professor of medieval history at the University of Oslo, told Live Science. "Sometimes they even say it's a ...

Boiling oil, such a necessary feature of any Medieval war game ... others and their one main advantage is in the area of sea raids. Viking ships move at a rate of three rather than two, enabling ...

When we say "Vikings," we think of any inhabitant of the medieval Nordic world ... living in the Nordic world during the Viking age did raid and pillage. But there was much more to them than ...

When Kathleen Walker-Meikle, a historian at the University of Basel, in Switzerland, ponders the Middle Ages, her mind tends to drift not to religious conquest or Viking raids, but to squirrels.

Famously, the Viking period is usually marked by the raid on Lindisfarne ... which were essential items during Medieval Europe, Sindbæk explains. Those trade networks likely connected Viking ...

Last year's Medieval: Total War let players ... For instance, since the Vikings were experts at pillaging enemy villages in raids, they will receive a destruction bonus that lets them earn bonus ...