Researchers have examined the teeth of Swedish Vikings and found that aside from evidence of decay and loss, they engaged in surprisingly advanced dental practices not dissimilar from modern practices ...

Rök runestone, one of the world's most famous, is believed to have been erected by Vikings fearing a repeat of a previous cold climate crisis in Scandinavia. With hit TV shows and recent ...

Take a two-centre break in Stockholm and Uppsala and discover your inner Northman! Sweden is a big country. A land of rock, deep forests, rivers, lakes and seemingly endless coastline, and it’s from ...

The Viking Age conjures images of fierce warriors, longships cutting through icy waters, and raids that left their mark across Europe. But not all Vikings were the same. The groups from Norway, Sweden ...

As it turns out, even the now long-dead Vikings couldn’t escape a trip to the dentist. After spending around 1,000 years in the ground, the skeletal remains of over 100 Swedish Vikings were exhumed ...

Archaeologists working on Björkö island in Sweden's Lake Mälaren discovered the remains of a Viking Age shipyard. In what has been described by archaeologists as the “first of its kind”, remains of a ...

Vikings in Sweden suffered from painful dental issues and occasionally tried to treat them, according to a new study. Vikings in Sweden suffered from painful dental issues and occasionally tried to ...

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A graduate student in Sweden has been learning about Vikings through an unusual method: He's done it by sailing like one. Archaeologist Greer Jarrett, a doctoral student at Lund University, has ...

Visitors to Geneva Sunday had a chance to channel their inner Viking during the 113th Swedish Day Midsummer Festival at Good Templar Park. The festival celebrates the Scandinavian celebration of ...