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 ...

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.

Quiz sheet for kids too which my daughter loved ... original castle being damaged in a fire in 1684, parts of the medieval ...

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 ...