From icy seas to fire-lit longhouses, Dan heads to Iceland to trace the birth of one of the world’s most unique medieval cultures — at the very edge of the known world.

Geneticists have studied the distribution of Y-chromosome haplogroups on the Faroe Islands, known to have been colonized by Vikings around the year 900 CE, and compared these to distributions of ...

Archaeologists have unearthed what may be the oldest Viking settlement in Iceland. The ancient longhouse is thought to be a summer settlement built in the 800s, decades before seafaring refugees are ...

The Oseberg ship -- The culture of northern Heathendom -- The causes of the Viking Age -- 'The devastation of all the islands of Britain by the Heathens' -- The Vikings in the Carolingian empire -- ...