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Scottish vikings march through the streets for Up Helly Aa festivities

Hundreds of vikings in Lerwick celebrated Up Helly Aa with a torchlit procession, ending with the ceremonial burning of a replica longship.

27 January 2026

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Up Helly Aa: A fiery celebration of Shetland's Norse Heritage

Residents of Shetland in the UK celebrate their Viking heritage at the Up Helly Aa fire festival, held in Lerwick.

29 January 2025

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50 well-preserved Viking skeletons discovered in Danish burial ground

Beneath the sleepy Danish village of Åsum, archaeologists have discovered more than 50 remarkable Viking graves, which will likely shed new light on the everyday lives of the the formidable Norsemen.

15 October 2024

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Archaeologists uncover more than 50 Viking skeletons in Denmark

The discoveries suggest that the Vikings were involved in trade networks far more extensive than previously thought.

30 September 2024

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Secrets of the Viking Völva revealed at Denmark’s National Museum

A new exhibition opening at Denmark’s National Museum is exploring the history and legacy of a mysterious female Viking sorceress, known as… the Völva.

26 June 2024

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Viking Age windows challenge Hollywood's portrayal of Norsemen

Danish researchers say fragments of glass found across Northern Europe suggest Vikings were more sophisticated than pop culture would have us believe.

11 October 2023

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Treasure trove of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark

What makes this find particularly rare is its connection to Viking King Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson, one of the last Viking rulers of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and parts of Germany.

29 May 2023

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Women now allowed to participate in Europe's largest fire festival

For the first time in its 142-year history, women and girls will participate in the torchlit procession at Lerwick's Up Helly Aa festival.

31 January 2023

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Up Helly Aa Viking fire festival squads open to women for first time

Women will be able to take part in squads at the main Up Helly Aa fire festival in Shetland for the first time next year, organisers have announced.

22 June 2022

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Will audiences buy into The Northman's Viking epic?

Ahead of the release of Robert Eggers' The Northman, we ask why Vikings have never seemed to make that big of a dent in Hollywood.

7 April 2022

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Meet the Bosnian 'Viking' living as his favourite fictional character

Escaping his life as a builder in Germany, Stipe Pleic decided to return to his hometown in Bosnia and live life as a viking.

31 January 2022

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The Vikings reached America long before Christopher Colombus

Tree rings and a solar storm have helped researchers to identify the earliest verifiable date of European settlement in the Americas.

22 October 2021

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Festival reenacts everyday lives of the Vikings

The everyday life of the Vikings has been recreated at festival in the east of England. Participants had a go at battle reenactments, tool making, cooking and music - turning history books into reality.

6 September 2021

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Skeletons of two related Viking men reunited in Denmark for first time

The skeletons of two Viking men have been reunited in a Danish museum for the first time in a 1,000 years.

11 June 2021

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Work begins to unearth Norway's first Viking ship in a century

Archaeologists believe the war ship had up to 35 rowers and could have carried up to 100 men on board

1 July 2020