New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

National Geographic stories take you on a journey that's always enlightening, often surprising and unfailingly fascinating. This month–the lost women of the Viking Age.

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. A cold drizzle falls as we shiver in the streets, waiting for the Viking lord and his band of raiders to appear.

5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new ...

This story appears in the June 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... hair and a trim beard—he could easily be cast as a Viking—is an agronomist and former chief adviser to ...

This story appears in the June 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... dramatic backdrops to some of the grandest of the Viking sagas. On this bright summer morning, a small wooden boat ...

His photos appear frequently in National Geographic magazine. While cruising the wild Hebridean seas, we were attacked by Vikings. Beset, we were, by wild men—and women—returned to their ...

Photo by National Geographic/Justin Mandel The ingredients ... “I’ve seen authentic Viking cooking methods, and it’s humbling to come away from these areas and see the wealth of what they ...

This windswept coastal outpost is the very spot where Norse sailors first settled in North America, the only authenticated Viking site on the continent. Here, the grassy, low-slung roofs of the ...