Viking life and culture

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

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

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

Vikings under the microscope: what can science tell us about Viking life?

Gordon Campbell reveals how the Vikings made epic voyages of discovery across the Atlantic a millennium ago. (Image by Getty Images)

Vikings in North America

Dr Cat Jarman explores the far-reaching trading networks of the Vikings, from the Baltic sea to Asia

The Vikings’ global connections

From Thor to Odin, Carolyne Larrington discusses the legendary figures of Viking mythology. (Image by Getty Images)

A guide to the Norse gods

Photo of statue of Leif Erikson

Leif Erikson’s voyage to Vinland

A reconstruction of a Viking church

Vikings in America: the Europeans who arrived 500 years before Columbus

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

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

Alex Hogh Andersen as Ivar the Boneless

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

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

Valhalla: fighting and feasting in the Viking warrior afterlife

A helmet from a chieftain's grave in 10th-century Norway

Inside the Viking mind: the view of the Vikings’ world from 5 perspectives

Illustration of the raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne

Slaves in the Viking Age: how prevalent were enslaved people in Viking societies?

Neil Price takes us inside the Viking mind to explain how the Norse raiders viewed the world and what drove them to expand across the seas. (Image by Getty Images)

Inside the Viking mind

The Oseberg ship from around AD 820 is one of the most well- preserved Viking ships ever excavated

Viking ships: 5 lesser-known facts

Professor Jan Bill on the HistoryExtra podcast.

At sea with the Vikings