Archaeologist Greer Jarrett from Lund University in Sweden has spent three years retracing the voyages of Vikings, uncovering ...

Vikings did not use maps, sextants, or other devices to navigate. They likely remembered their routes with coastal landmarks that were linked to myths... | Earth And The Environment ...

Since 2022, Jarrett and his intrepid crews have navigated multiple voyages aboard an open, square-rigged clinker boat built ...

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett at Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for three years. He can ...

To trace forgotten Viking trade routes, an experimental archaeologist spent three years braving frozen Norwegian waters.

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett spent three years piloting a small sailboat along the coast of Norway to understand Viking trade ...

Despite the boat’s lack of a deep keel, it proved stable even in rough waters. Jarrett noted that sailing near land—through ...

A new study shows that pregnancies during the Viking Age were far from a private matter, closely tied to conflict, social ...

This tapestry also contains one of the only known depictions of a horned Viking helmet.

Swedish archaeologists uncovered a rare 1,100-year-old Viking coffin grave containing weapons near Linköping, describing ...

Viking experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester have examined pregnancy in the Viking Age and discovered ...

Historian William Short watches and rates depictions of Viking combat in movies and TV shows. He discusses Viking shield formations in "Vikings." He outlines brutal village raid tactics in "The ...