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A Viking burial in Birka, Sweden, long thought to belong to a male warrior, was actually of a woman.

Thousands of Viking warriors spent the winter camped along a river in Lincolnshire, England, in the late ninth century, playing games and preparing for the next raiding season.

Archaeologists recently found a 1,000-year-old toy Viking ship during an excavation of a site in central Norway.

The boat burial, found in Western Scotland, contained a rich collection of grave goods, suggesting the person lying within was a prominent individual.

Archaeologists have discovered a 1,000-year-old set of iron tools at the Viking fortress of Borgring, on the island of Zeeland in eastern Denmark.

The original shrine of the patron saint of Norway may have been discovered.

For all their infamous raiding and plundering, the Vikings who attacked from Scandinavia might have been just a bunch of lonely-hearted bachelors, new research suggests.