Mary Ann Bernal

Ancient Origins In Scandinavian folklore, there are numerous races of beings, the best-known of which (apart from human beings) are the...

Ancient Origins By ThorNews In the largest and most richly equipped Viking burial mounds discovered in Norway there are usually foun...

History Extra An image of Viking sailors making the voyage across the Atlantic between Europe and America. One sailor is seen wearing a...

History Extra A detail of the decorative carving on the side of the Oseberg cart depicting a woman with streaming hair apparently restr...

June 8 793 Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and is commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasio...

History Extra The ‘holy island’ of Lindisfarne, just off the coast of Northumberland. A savage raid on the island’s monastery in 793 ...

Sept 9 9 AD Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushed and annihilated three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus i...

Ancient Origins About 1,000 years ago an unlucky soul apparently buried his treasure—a cache of Viking coins—in a field in Wales and nev...

Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News   Live Science The Viking Age ring with the Arab...

November 12  607 Boniface III died. Before he became Pope, Boniface went as a legate to Constantinople and obtained from the emperor Pho...

  Runologist cracks the mysterious jötunvillur code – and discovers medieval 'text messages' Alison Flood http://www.thegua...

January 6  1017 Canute I crowned King of England. He was also King Canute II of Denmark and King Canute of Norway, and because of the em...