Hårby Valkyrie: A 1,200-year-old gold Viking Age woman sporting a sword, shield and ponytail The Vikings wore helmets with ...

Want to "walk" through a real Viking village? The sequences below from the NOVA film "The Vikings" offer a fascinating and unprecedented look at Birka, a medieval Viking village that archeologists ...

But that's a poor picture based largely on Viking portrayals in the 19th century, when they featured in European art either as romantic heroes or exotic savages. The real Vikings, however ...