Viking life and culture

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Vikings in North America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Vikings’ global connections. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A guide to the Norse gods. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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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Inside the Viking mind: the view of the Vikings' world from 5 perspectives. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of the raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne

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Slaves in the Viking Age: how prevalent were enslaved people in Viking societies?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Inside the Viking mind. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Professor Jan Bill on the HistoryExtra podcast.

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At sea with the Vikings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Viking genes unravelled. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

The front facade of the prehistoric chambered tomb of Wayland's Smithy

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BlogMedieval(ish) matters #6: Viking military mind games, Anglo-Saxon mind maps, and embroidery before the Bayeux Tapestry. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Vikings: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Image of a medieval skull showing arrow injury

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BlogMedieval(ish) matters #2: arrows in the eye, The Last Kingdom, Viking dogs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Haesten (Jeppe Beck Laursen) in the 'The Last Kingdom'.

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The Last Kingdom S4 E9 review: a tense penultimate episode sees the Saxon heart “ripped out”

Alexander Dreymon as Uhtred in season 4 of 'The Last Kingdom'. (Photo by Joe Alblas/Carnival)

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The Last Kingdom S4 E10 review: resettled pieces on the board allow drama to “catch up” with history

Millie Brady as Aethelflaed in 'The Last Kingdom'.

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The Last Kingdom S4 E8 review: a fiery opening paves the way for a new ruler of Mercia

The Last Kingdom season 4

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The Last Kingdom S4 E7 review: a royal funeral, the abuse of power, and a little artistic licence

Oscar Skagerberg as Bjorgulf in 'The Last Kingdom' season 4

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The Last Kingdom S4 E5 review: “This has to rank among the more gruesome episodes of the season, if not the series”

Ewan Mitchell as Osferth, Mark Rowley as Finan and Aenas Fedaravicius as Sihtric. (Photo by Adrienn Szabo courtesy of Netflix)

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The Last Kingdom S4 E6 review: a mysterious medieval ‘Sickness’ leaves its mark

Silver penny of Cnut

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Ivar the Boneless, Ragnvald of Ed and 6 more Vikings you should know about

The Last Kingdom series 4

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The Last Kingdom S4 E3 review: moments of introspection remind us of history’s “shared humanity”

Magnus Bruun as Cnut in 'The Last Kingdom' season 4

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The Last Kingdom S4 E4 review: “Royal rage could be a terrible thing in the early Middle Ages”

'The Last Kingdom' season 4 episode 1

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The Last Kingdom S4 E1 review: will Alfred’s legacy come tumbling down?

'The Last Kingdom' season 4

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The Last Kingdom S4 E2 review: winds of change and dramatic father-son relations

A Viking sword with silver and gold hilt, from Dyback, Skane. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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How England rode the Viking storm. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Coins depicting Viking longships

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A brief history of the Vikings

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Viking women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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