Without this crucial advance in ship technology, the Vikings would never have become a dominant force in medieval warfare, politics, and trade. The drekar, or dragon-headed longships, were ...

How and why did medieval farmers in Scandinavia become ... Photograph by ROBERT CLARK-PHOTOGRAPHED AT VIKING SHIP MUSEUM, MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO Around 750 a band of ...

They have often speculated that it could be a Spanish galleon, but perhaps Doug has now spotted evidence that it is a Viking ...

During their prime, the Vikings mastered the seas and went on to make wide-spanning voyages by boat. But how exactly did they know where they were going? A recent study, focused on a set of medieval ...

In 1005, he assembled the most ambitious Viking expedition yet - three ships packed with 160 settlers ... nature threw them a curveball. The Medieval Warm Period that had made their Atlantic ...

The Viking ship Skidbladner. A full scale replica of the 9th century Viking longship (photo credit: Lenka Adamcikova. Via Shutterstock) A new study suggests that medieval stone discs found in ...

This ship is named after the Norse god Modi, known for his courage and strength, but its sophisticated interior is inspired ...

The excavators speculate that this ship, like the others in Roskilde ... might be seen foaming far and wide" wrote a medieval monk who watched a Viking fleet set sail. Above: Detail from the ...