Judging from the opulence of his tomb, he was a revered Viking warrior destined to take his place in Valhalla among the honoured dead. Laid to rest in a 17ft boat with his sword, axe and bronze ...

Red Dead Redemption 2 is packed full of details that are still being discovered to this day. Plenty has taken fans by surprise, but the origins behind one particular in-game weapon turns out to be a ...

Apart from the axe, there are two main kinds of bladed weapons. There's the classic Viking sword, either a single or a double edged weapon used for slashing, but there's also a smaller, slimmer kind ...

The UK mainland's first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been discovered by archaeologists working in the Scottish Highlands. The 5m-long grave contained the remains of a high status Viking, ...

Yes, you’re looking at a real Viking sword here — and it’s over 1000 years old. This is just part of a new archeological discovery, the 16-foot tomb of a Viking warrior who came to Scotland and never ...

One thousand years ago a Viking 'warrior of high status' was buried in a 17ft (5 metre) boat at a site in western Scotland. Today, all that remains of the mysterious fighter are two teeth and a grave ...

A MEDIEVAL skeleton long thought to have belonged to a powerful male Viking was in fact that of an axe-wielding Norsewoman. The body was discovered alongside a cache of fearsome weapons in the late ...

The axe is one of the biggest ever found from Viking times Museum Silkeborg One of the largest Viking axes ever found has been uncovered by a team of archaeologists from Denmark. The impressive weapon ...

Archaeologists think the axe head could be evidence of a battle in 894 AD A Viking axe head found in a Gloucestershire village could be evidence of a battle more than 1,100 years ago, according to ...