Archaeologist Julia Wihlborg suggested that the sword and shield of the Hårby Valkyrie may represent a woman who had manly ...

From lens focal lengths and fill-flash to portraits, macro or stunning landscapes there are techniques for everyone. Learn how to use metering, considering composition and shoot everything from ...

Discovered in Norway in 1906, the Oseberg ship (above), the best preserved Viking ship ever found, reveals its Norse shipbuilders' graceful construction style. Next, the boatbuilders affixed ...

Satellite images have led archaeologists to a new excavation site in Canada, yielding more clues to Norse settlements in ... sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled ...

Roughly 1,000 years ago, the story goes, a Viking trader and adventurer named Thorfinn Karlsefni set off from the west coast of Greenland with three ships and a band of Norse to explore a newly ...

These assistants to the Norse god of war then accompanied the ... figurine suggests it was made around A.D. 800, or the early Viking Age. It was found in a field where archaeologists and ...

Much less is known about Viking navigation methods on the high seas, although one of the Icelandic sagas—narratives of Norse history and legends written in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries ...