This highlights that there were people with Scandinavian ancestry in Britain earlier than the Anglo-Saxon and Viking periods which started in the 5th century AD. Germanic-speaking people move north ...

In a nutshell An ancient Viking ring inscription, previously thought to require payment of fines in both oxen AND silver, ...

When did the Viking Age begin and end, and why is it so difficult to define? Explore when and how the era of Scandinavian ...

This insinuates that people of Scandinavian ancestry were in Britain before the Anglo-Saxon period (around 400 A.D. to 1,000 A.D.) and Viking period (around 800 A.D. to 1,000 A.D.). Genetic analysis ...

Grand Magus’s JB Christoffersson, Wardruna’s Einar Selvik and mediaeval history lecturer Simon Trafford explain why heavy ...

It has been suspected that Viking blood was in the British DNA before the hordes raided in earnest from the 8th century Credit: mikroman6/Moment RF The team discovered a Scandinavian buried in a ...

An exceptionally rare gold-plated fragment of a pre-Viking helmet adorned with red ... This piece comes from what must have been one of Scandinavia's most magnificent helmets," said Julie Nielsen ...

The Vikings did not reach the end zone ... The word derives from the Old Norse words skál meaning “bowl” or “cup” and kál which means “to drink," the website Seek Scandinavia says.