Viking warriors storm a burning village in “Ein Wikingerüberfall” by Ferdinand Leeke, 1901.

Daily Life in the Viking Great Army Camps reveals a mobile community of warriors, families, traders, craftspeople and captives.

Reconstruction of Aarhus (Denmark) during the Viking Age

Viking Trading Towns: Discover how Kaupang, Birka and Hedeby connected Viking Scandinavia with distant markets through ships, workshops, silver, merchants and royal power.

A 19th-century painting by Peter Raadsig shows Iceland's first settler, Ingólfr Arnarson, commanding enslaved individuals to erect a pillar.

The Viking Slave Trade linked raids, markets and households from Dublin to the Volga, turning captives into labour, ransom and commercial wealth.

Oseberg ship excavation 1904

The Women of Oseberg: Power, Ritual and a Viking Ship Burial explores the lives of two elite women, their grave goods, their sacrifices, and the enduring mystery surrounding their burial.

Scene from Stora Hammar stone

Did Vikings sacrifice people? Written accounts and archaeology suggest they sometimes did, but the evidence reveals no universal Viking ceremony.

Jelling stone, Jelling, Denmark

Religion in the Viking Age reveals a world of gods, household ritual, magic and changing belief as the hammer and cross increasingly existed side by side.

Skuldelev III - A Viking Age cargo and passenger ship found in Roskilde Fjord near Skuldelev.

Viking Sea Steeds: Viking sea steeds conquered distance through clinker hulls, oars, costly woollen sails and navigational skill, carrying the Norse across northern seas.

Vikings Collection

Before Lindisfarne: England’s first Viking encounters in Portland came before 793. Discover why Lindisfarne still became the symbolic start of the Viking Age.

Daughters of Yaroslav the Wise - The portrait of princely family was located in St. Sophia of Kyiv, on three walls of the nave – south, west and north

Yaroslav the Wise built a network of royal exiles, marriages and alliances that placed Kyivan Rus’ at the centre of eleventh-century European politics.

Harald Hardrada

Harald Hardrada: How Icelandic sagas recast a ruthless warrior-king into the ideal ruler, revealing more about 13th-century values than 11th-century reality.

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