Hedeby is the Southernmost Nordic town, and played an important role as a key trading center in the viking age. It is at the ...
The main attractions at the Viking Ship Museum are the Oseberg ship, Gokstad ship and Tune ship. Additionally, the Viking Age ...
Peel Castle was originally constructed by Vikings. The castle stands on St Patrick's Isle which is connected to the town b ...
The Jelling stones are massive carved runestones from the 10th century, found at the town of Jelling in Denmark. The older of ...
Dating in 871, Tønsberg is commonly believed to have been the oldest Norwegian town and one of the oldest recorded fortified ...
The Lofotr Viking Museum is a historical museum based on a reconstruction and archaeological excavation of a Viking chieftain ...
Munkholmen is an islet which has served as a place of execution, a monastery, a fortress, prison, and a World War II anti-air ...
At the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland, the remains of an 11th-century Viking settlement ar ...
The Staraya Ladoga village used to be a prosperous trading outpost in the 8th and 9th centuries. A multi-ethnic settlement, i ...
Trelleborg is a collective name for six Viking Age circular forts, located in Denmark and the southern part of modern S ...
Lindholm Høje (Lindholm Hills) is a major Viking burial site and former settlement situated to the north of and overlo ...
A tidal island off the north coast of the Orkney mainland, the Brough of Birsay was intensively settled from the 7th to the 1 ...
People have lived in the current Narsaq area for thousands of years, but not continuously. Remains of the Norse settlement ca ...
Fyrkat might be the oldest of Denmark"s former Viking ring castles. It is built on a narrow piece of land with a river o ...
Nonnebakken (literally, "Nun Hill") is the site of one of Denmark's six former Viking ring castles, built during the reign of ...
Sineus and Truvor were the brothers of Rurik, a chieftain of the Varangian Rus tribe considered to be the founder of the Ruri ...
Kvívík is one of the oldest settlements in the Faroes and excavations have shown the remains of Viking houses. Excavations ...
Just outside of Castletown, Balladoole is one of the Isle of Man’s most impressive ancient monuments. Balladoole has been ...
The Trelleborg near Slagelse is one of the five of six Viking ring castles in Denmark. Similar to the other Viking ring castl ...