But this did not bring him favor with his neighbor, as this meant she was abandoning a strategic marriage with a Wendish king, arranged by her brother. Olaf made enemies of his neighboring Viking ...

Constantine mac Áed (Constantine II), the grandson of Kenneth MacAlpin, began his life as an exile. In 878 AD his father, Áed, had been slain by a Giric, son of Dungal, and Constantine, a young boy at ...

For most of the 9th century Dumbarton seems to have avoided the worst of the Viking attacks which ravaged Scotland, that is until 866 AD, when Olaf the White, the Norse King of Dublin, brought a ...

On March 21, the Scandia Sons of Norway will host a speaker to tell the tale of Norway’s “Hard-Ruler” of the Viking Age. Dr. Lawrence Moe, an academic and professor, will recount the story ...