After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

Since this century began, Vikings have been the subject of countless historical documentaries, multiple streaming series and ...

Discovered in a field in Scotland in 2014, the Viking Age "community property" is now the focus of a new exhibition in ...

Among the pieces are two combs made of bone or deer antler, one of which has a geometric decoration that evokes parallels ...

A famed Viking-age silver hoard discovered in Scotland may have belonged to an entire community of people, rather than one ...

The Viking Age hoard, which contains more than 11lbs (5kg ... based on four arm rings inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes. Three of the inscriptions feature Old English name elements, but the fourth and ...

The Galloway Hoard, discovered in 2014, has been the subject of mystery with theories suggesting it was likely buried by four prosperous owners based on arm rings inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes.

Experts believed the coins were Anglo-Saxon and to have been hidden by a Viking. One of them was a double-headed coin, showing two rulers of England. Alfred the Great, who ruled Wessex ...

The pieces dated to around 900 A.D. or the Viking Age. The hoard “was buried ... “The top layer was a parcel of silver bullion and a rare Anglo-Saxon cross, separated from a lower layer ...