Assassin's Creed Valhalla gets more right than most Norse fiction, and the thing it gets most right is not the gear at all. It is ...

Two swords strapped across the back is a modern invention, and the geometry gives it away before the history does. A blade longer ...

Hnefatafl is the board game the Norse played before chess reached the north, and nobody can prove they know its rules. Its name me...

Both shows get the big shapes right and the details wrong in the same places. Round shields, spears, single edged knives and long ...

Excalibur is a literary object, not an archaeological one. No sword of that name has ever been excavated, and no chronicle written...

Most people searching for Ragnar Lothbrok's axe mean one thing: the bearded axe that Travis Fimmel's Ragnar carries through the ea...

The axe at the centre of the 2018 God of War game was invented for that game, and it does things no axe does, which is fine, becau...

No. No Viking Age helmet with horns has ever been found, anywhere, in any grave, bog or harbour, and people have been digging for ...

Runestones are memorial stones raised by families in Scandinavia, carved in the sixteen stave Younger Futhark. Most date from the ...

Search for Viking symbols and you will find the same dozen designs on pendants, tattoos and axe heads, each with a confident one l...