Viking News Archives | C.J. Adrien

The Longest Longship’s Long Journey Will End in 2020, but Not Without Challenges

As Norway struggles to find funding to preserve their longships, Denmark is celebrating a milestone with one of theirs. The longest Viking ship ever found, the Roskilde 6, has been on the road since 2013, and has traveled on tour…

Norway’s Crumbling Viking Longships: Can They Be Saved in Time?

As Norway's Viking longships continue to crumble, efforts to fund their preservation have come up short.

New Study on Whetstones Proposes Trade as Probable Cause of the Viking Age.

What caused the Viking Age? Historians, archeologists, and other academics have long sought to clearly define its root causes. What inspired the Vikings to raid? What triggered their sudden expansion across the world? Theories to explain it abound, from climatic…

Viking Sword Found in Patara, Turkey.

A recent discovery has created a great deal of buzz at Akdeniz University, in Turkey. Nestled among other artifacts belonging to a 9th and 10th-century naval warfare excavation in the city of Patara, researchers uncovered a hilt and a pommel belonging to what archeologists believe is a Viking sword.

The Danevirke Receives World Heritage Site Status

One of the most important sites for the study of the Viking Age has received recognition this month from the Unesco World Heritage committee. The Danevirke, designated a world heritage site in July of 2018, was discovered in 1897 and…