A graduate student in Sweden has been learning about Vikings through an unusual method: He's done it by sailing like one. Archaeologist Greer Jarrett, a doctoral student at Lund University, has ...

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett spent three years piloting a small sailboat along the coast of Norway to understand Viking trade routes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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If you want to learn more about how and where the Vikings sailed, making the journey through the fjords yourself in replica boats is a practical, hands-on approach to achieving that end. Greer Jarrett ...

Archaeologists continue to discover graves of high-ranking Viking women. We recently saw a dig in Sweden, linked to the discovery of a Viking woman in Birka. Even accidentally, we have seen volunteers ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 10th-century Viking woman in Norway who was buried in a boat grave along with her pet dog, shedding more light on special funerary rituals reserved for ...

The saying goes that a dog is a man’s best friend, but an archaeological excavation in Norway proves that women care about their four-legged companions just as much as men do, even 1,100 years ago.

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• Diana Dretske is a historian curator at Libertyville-based Dunn Museum, operated by the Lake County Forest Preserves. She writes the Lake County History blog for the Forest Preserves. This is her ...