Viking settlements consisted of farms with ... Sagas also detail Icelandic imports of cloth from England, Norway, Ireland, and Constantinople. Textiles recovered from archaeological excavations ...

“I swear I will not flee from this fight. I will triumph, or I will die!” ...

Istanbul. In Viking times, this was the greatest city on Earth, 'and it was called Constantinople.' NEIL OLIVER:'And for those Vikings, it was the end of a long and dangerous journey from the North.

Vikings waged war from the seas, notoriously ruthless and with their own set of rules. The Viking expansion was unprecedented in the veracity of its spread. Known for merciless bloodshed, the Norsemen ...

From their mastery of the seas to their influence over lands as far from home as Russia and North America, the Scandinavian raiders known as the Vikings shaped the world for centuries. Swift and ...

After the departure of the Vikings, the next European visit to ... were collected from all over the Orient and shipped through Constantinople, into the markets of Europe. This was the time of ...

On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...