The practice supposedly made the transition to the afterlife safe for the dead ... for the Viking culture, because of the ...

So it was that in his early twenties, Constantine mac Áed became King of Pictland. The kingdom had been nearly destroyed by the Vikings, but its peoples, Picts and Gael, faced with the prospect ...

Cnut the Great, also known as Canute or Knut Sveinsson (Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki; died 12 November 1035) was a Viking king of England, Denmark and Norway. His successes as a statesman ...