Finding a Viking Age burial ground of this size is rare, in part because Scandinavian soil doesn't preserve skeletons well.

Vikings was one of the shows at the heart of ... and continued to explore the tensions between the Anglo-Saxons and the Danes ...

However, the Vikings never took control of Wales or overcame the powers of the Welsh kings. Notably Rhodri The Great, ruler of Gwynedd, defeated the Danes in 856, a famous victory which earned him ...

The Saxon king Ethelred the Unready ordered "a most just extermination" of all the Danes in England following a resurgence in Viking raids. The mass grave was discovered in 2008 at St John's ...

This online mythology course is an introduction to the religion of the Vikings as it is recorded in Old Norse and Scandinavian literature ... Snorri Sturluson's Edda and Saxo's History of the Danes.

16:28 What did the Vikings look like? 17:29 What do modern Norwegians and Danes think of the Viking era? 18:50 Descendants of Vikings online?