A 6-year-old boy named Henrik spotted a well-preserved Viking Age sword in a Norwegian field, a rare find officials say ...

If there were teachers close at hand, they may have told Henrik not to touch the "rusty piece of metal" he saw sticking out ...

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The silver in a Viking Age hoard found in Denmark was from melted-down coins from the faraway Islamic world, a new study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Europe's incredible landscapes are full of history and mystery, but the stave churches that dot the countryside in Norway have to ...

Vikings, traditionally depicted as primitive bearded warriors, had a fondness for some of life's precious things. In Europe, hundreds of buried hoards of silver testify to its attraction for Vikings ...

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The isolated Faroe Islands were once home to an unknown population in 500 AD, about 350 years before Vikings ever arrived, according to new research. And the evidence comes from an unusual source: ...