Ten-foot spears, three-foot shields, and a thousand raving warriors - Viking combat was brutal, bloody, and often deadly. Whether raiding a defenseless monastery to haul off gold and jewels or ...

Viking woman from over 1,100 years ago found buried with her dog and boat - Researchers suspect she was important figure with ...

Axes and spears made of wood and metal were cheaper ... while defending themselves with shields. The Vikings built fast 'dragonships' and 'longships' for raiding and war. A ship carried everything ...

The recreation of this battle saw arrows fly through the sky, axes crash into shields and spears clatter Viking helms as hundreds of trained re-enactment members took their place on the football ...

Building Viking shields is not the thing most teens spend their time on, but for one Aurora high school student the work was a perfect fit. For his Eagle Scout project, West Aurora High School ...

For his Eagle Scout project, Longo, a West senior, presented eight handmade Viking replica shields to the museum’s Viking’s Voyage exhibit. Longo’s project culminated 437 hours of labor by ...

A team of archaeologists has unearthed a Viking Age tomb comprising the remains of a shield and various grave goods amid preliminary work for the establishment of a house in Oslo, Norway ...