Several medieval chronicles tell of Björn Ironside, a Viking king who ruled in Sweden and Norway in the ninth century C.E., ...

Considered to be Ireland's oldest city, the name Waterford is ... which features in the spectacular ‘King of the Vikings’ Virtual Reality Adventure. Meanwhile, there are also walking tours ...

until they finally pawned the islands to a Scottish king. Today the old Norse dialect—Norn—is all but forgotten in Shetland, but the islanders remain intensely proud of their Viking past.

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...