Painting of Vikings in ships

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c900 AD, Viking ships invading England. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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5 key Viking discoveries in Britain – and what they reveal about how the Vikings really lived

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What was life like for Viking women?

Science is helping to reveal new information about life in the Viking Age

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Statue of Leif Erikson (Leifur Erikssonn) in front of Eric the Red's home. (Photo by Draper White, Getty Images)

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Leif Erikson’s voyage to Vinland

Alexander Ludwig as Bjorn Ironside, son Ragnar Lothbrok and king of Kattegat

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Vikings Season 6: plot recap, plus 8 historical questions answered

Alex Hogh Andersen as Ivar the Boneless

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The real Vikings: the early medieval world behind the hit drama

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Q&AWho were the Kievan Rus and what do they have to do with the Vikings?

Vahalla is depicted as a round-topped building in this funerary stone from 8th-century Sweden

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Valhalla: fighting and feasting in the Viking warrior afterlife

A helmet from a chieftain's grave in 10th-century Norway. (Images by Getty)

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Illustration of the raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne

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The Oseberg ship from around AD 820 is one of the most well- preserved Viking ships ever excavated (Photo by Noe Falk Nielsen/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Viking ships: 5 lesser-known facts

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The Varangian Guard as depicted in the illuminated 12th-century manuscript known as the Madrid Skylitzes. These Viking warriors became the Byzantine emperors' personal bodyguard

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What was the Varangian Guard? A brief history of the Viking warriors of the Byzantine empire

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Old Norse sages describe Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir as 'the loveliest of women and nobel in every trait'. But this far-travelled Icelandic woman was eulogised largely not for her beauty and charm but as a strong-willed survivor who married three times and bore a son, Snorri, in Vinland (North America) during on of her intrepid voyages (Illustration by Lynn Hatzius)

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The amazing life of a great female Viking explorer

Edward the Confessor, depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry

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