Leif Erikson was a real explorer and the ... as "warrior who fights without armor." Harald is known to be a great, mighty ...

More from How Real Is It? Historian William Short watches ... Valhalla." He describes what Viking armor looked like in "Outlander," starring Jim Caviezel, Ron Perlman, and John Hurt.

Researchers are still at work today unearthing artifacts and probing their origins. “Viking” does not refer to a people but rather to an activity. In the two centuries spanning the Viking ...

From the day in 793 when Viking warriors descended on an isolated ... Their reputation, experts say, came not so much from their weapons or armor as from their innovative tactics and high morale.