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The Big Question What did it mean to go “a-viking,” and how does this show the Viking way of life? Their ships, called longships, were so sleek they seemed to fly through water.

Every day the boy Harald heard some such story of war or of the gods, until he could see Thor riding among the storm-clouds and throwing his hammer, until he knew that a brave man has many …

aning. “Viking” came to mean “pirate”, or “raider from the ea”. Viking is a name that strikes fear into our enemies, and makes them scan the horizon for the sails of our lon

A comprehensive and readable history of the Viking age that voyages as far as the Northmen themselves, via Iceland and Greenland to North America, down the rivers of Russia to Byzantium …

The Viking Age is generally considered to have begun in the late eighth century with the dramatic explosion of Scandinavian raiding parties onto the European stage.

Plundering communities and later building new societies, the Norsemen left a remarkable imprint on the world. This nine-part scripted series on HISTORY® looks at the Viking culture through the...