Painting of Vikings in ships

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Vikings quiz – week four

Vikings quiz - week three

Daily life, with Professor Ryan Lavelle

Vikings quiz - week two

Trading and exploring, with Professor Ryan Lavelle

Vikings quiz - week one

Vikings quiz - week one

HEX Academy Vikings - week one video

Viking raiders, with Professor Ryan Lavelle

What Norse poetry reveals about the Viking age

Illustration of a Viking with a blue tooth wearing mail and a helmet

Q&AIs it true that Bluetooth was named after a Viking king?

Bradley James as Jomsvikings leader Harekr in season 2 of Vikings: Valhalla

JomsvikingsLegendary Viking mercenaries or men of myth?

Perhaps the most charming idea about the origins of the festive tradition of kissing under the mistletoe derives from a Viking myth of Frigg, goddess of love and marriage, and her ill-fated son Balder. (Photo by Jurg Waldmeier/StockFood Creative/Getty Images Plus)

Q&AWhy do we kiss under the mistletoe?

Return of the Viking raiders

Alice Roberts on unearthing the Romans, Vikings & Anglo-Saxons

The trouble with viking hypermasculinity

The NorthmanHow the real Viking prince Amleth inspired Shakespeare

The Northman: bringing the Viking world to life on screen

The Northman stars Alexander Skarsgård as Viking prince Amleth

“You are in their world, not in ours”: How The Northman makes the Viking Age real

Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, illustrated sitting on a throne

Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians: the warrior queen who crushed the Vikings

Alexander Dreymon as Uhtred of Bebbanburg in The Last Kingdom season 5

The real Uhtred of BebbanburgThe historical inspirations for The Last Kingdom’s hero

The Last Kingdom season 5 starsAlexander Dreymon as Uhtred of Bebbanburg

The Last Kingdom: real history and historical accuracy

Leif Erikson in Vikings Valhalla

Vikings: Valhalla – the real history behind Netflix’s successor to Vikings

Stone engraved with the representation of the gods Odin, Thor and Frey, with a sacrifice to Odin

Christians and pagans in Norse society: the real religious rifts between Vikings

Vikings: Valhalla’s real inspirations

Sweyn Forkbeard, king of Denmark and the first Viking king of England (Photo by Getty)

How Sweyn Forkbeard became the first Viking king of England

Part one in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1000–1049

Turning points1016: The Danish conquest of England

A Viking ship is burned in a reproduction of a funeral

What do we know about Viking funerals?

A 12th century tapestry showing, on the left, one eyed Odin carrying an axe, with a representation of the tree from which he hung; in the centre, Thor, carrying his symbolic hammer in his right hand; and on the right the fertility god Frey holding an ear of corn

10 incredible Viking stories from Norse mythology

A carving of the Viking gods Odin, Thor and Freyr with a sacrifice above them. It was found on the Swedish island of Gotland (Photo by: PHAS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Gods, myths and rituals: what we know about Viking religious beliefs

The Great Army attacks the East Anglian town of Thetford in this illuminated manuscript from 'The Life of Edmund'. Viking pikemen scale the ramparts on ladders

The secrets of the Viking Great Army

A French manuscript from c1100 shows Viking warriors sailing to Brittany. The Viking Age touched all areas of life and can still be felt today

What if...The Vikings had never left their homelands?