Robert Eggers' 'The Northman' is out-there and strangely accurate. How real history and bonkers cinema came together in the wildest Viking epic ever.

But I'm also sick of each one making the same exact mistake by sidelining the best part of real-world Viking history: the absolute badassery of their warrior women (AKA shieldmaidens). The fact ...

Others stuck with the Viking theory, while some said the corpse was that of a Native American who had gotten his armor from Europeans. No one knows. No one knew in 1831. No one knows now.

The remains of a powerful Viking — long thought to be a man — was in fact a real-life Xena Warrior Princess, a study released Friday reveals. The lady war boss was buried in the mid-10th ...

For more than a century after it was found, a skeleton ensconced in a Viking grave, surrounded by military weapons, was assumed to be that of a battle-hardened male. No more.

Kristofer Hivju, a.k.a. Tormund Giantsbane from “Game of Thrones,” is hosting a Smithsonian Channel competition about becoming a real-life Viking. The hour-long format, working-titled ...