A How To guide for those wishing to recreate clothing of the "(not so) Dark Age".

The notion of Viking berserkers has captured the popular imagination but who were they?

The first Europeans to settle in the Americas were the Vikings. Perhaps we should call it 'Norse America'.

One of the history workshops that Tastes Of History offers for schools is on the Vikings. In doing so, we try to get our costume as accurate as possible so, just like the Vikings, we don't wear horned helmets. Find out why as we dispel a myth.

Today we use the term “Viking” for anyone from the Scandinavian communities of Denmark, Norway and Sweden during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.  In Britain, therefore, the “Viking Age” is commonly understood as the period from the earliest recorded raid in AD 793[1]until the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.  To call all of these people 'Vikings' is mistaken as the name doesn't really describe the distinct tribes, groups or communities of the Early Mediæval period. Fi