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The Blood Eagle: A Gruesome but Possible Execution?
In a new study published in the journal Early Science, researchers theorized that the “blood eagle” may have been an actual execution method used by Vikings.

Curious About the Current State of Viking Age Research? A New Paper from Denmark Overviews Viking Research “Hot Spots”
A new paper titled Crossing the Maelstrom: New Departures in Viking Archaeology published in the...

Viking Age Amulets May Have Represented Ritual Costumes, Not Gods and Heroes, A New Study Concludes
Denmark - A new study from Pieterjan Deckers, Sarah Croix & Soren Sindbæk released this month...

Recent Study Suggests A Grave in Suontaka, Finland Contained A Gender Non-Binary Viking Warrior
If you thought the discovery of a female Viking warrior a few years ago was controversial, wait until you hear about the gender non-binary warrior from Finland.

Les Bátar, A French Group, to Build the Fastest Longship in the World to Sail to New York
Vikings are popular. Really popular. So hugely, immensely, unreasonably popular that their name...

How Did the Vikings Wear Their Hair?
Few images haunt the imaginations of schoolchildren more...

Did the Vikings Wear Makeup?
Where it concerns what we know about Viking Age Scandinavian personal styles and decorations, we can only speak with a relative amount of certainty to those things which have come up in the archeological record.

Buzz about Viking “Reunion” is Just That: Buzz.
Perhaps more about the two men will come to light in the future, and we may yet learn something new and profound from them. Until then, they remain a curiosity more than anything.

Two New Ship Settings Found on the island of Hjarnø, Denmark
An article recently published in The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology by a group of...