A Norwegian man clearing his farm found a rare 1,000-year-old Viking sword carrying inscriptions that may shed more light on Nordic culture. “We were going to start sowing new grass on a field that ...

A corroded sword pulled from an English river by a magnet fisher is a Viking weapon dating to between A.D. 850 and 975, experts have confirmed. Trevor Penny was searching for lost and discarded ...

UNDATED (CNN) -- A sword is probably the last thing you'd expect to find on a hike -- especially one that's more than a millennium old. But that's what happened to a man in Norway who recently ...

An 8-year-old girl, originally from Minnesota, made a fantastic discovery playing in a Swedish lake: a pre-Viking era sword. Saga Vanecek, who lives with her family in Sweden after spending seven ...

A metal detectorist unearthed a Viking sword fragment shaped like wild boars, a first-of-its-kind find for the Netherlands, photos show. Photo from the Fries Museum On a farm in the Netherlands, a ...

A construction crew dredging the Vistula River in Włocławek found a 1,000-year-old Viking weapon in the mud, photos show and archaeologists said. Photo from the Provincial Office for the Protection of ...

LONDON — The long, thin piece of metal looked like a scaffolding pole when Trevor Penny saw it on the banks of an English river in November. That would not have surprised Penny, who, while practicing ...