The sequences below from the NOVA film "The Vikings" offer a fascinating and unprecedented look at Birka, a medieval Viking village that archeologists recently excavated near modern-day Stockholm.

Vikings had indeed reached the coast of America five centuries before Columbus. Now those medieval sagas look ready for another endorsement, this time from space: National Geographic fellow Sarah ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Paying a fine in Viking-age Sweden could cost you an ... to payments wasn’t unique to the Forsa Ring. Later medieval Scandinavian legal codes suggest that payments in ...