A new study has suggested that this gruesome ritual could have been done, even during the time of the Vikings.
New evidence has helped scientists pinpoint exactly when the Vikings were active on the continent.
Scientists have determined what it was that made the fiercest Viking warriors so fearless and ferocious.
There is evidence to suggest that Viking longhouses were 'buried' by being covered in mounds of Earth.
Archaeologists have unearthed what is only the second known Viking site ever discovered in North America.
The temple will be the first of its kind to be built in the country since the time of the Vikings.
According to experts at the Jorvik Viking Center, the apocalyptic 'Ragnarok' will soon be upon us.
According to Norse mythology the Vikings have their own version of doomsday and it is fast approaching.
How true to the stereotypical Viking were the actual Nordic warriors of Scandinavian ancestry ?
Extreme climate changes caused the Vikings to abandon their homeland in search of warmer weather.