Each year they prepare obsessively for Up Helly Aa, assembling, plank by plank, a replica of a Viking ship. Bristling with spears and swords, Viking and Slav reenactors face off in a mock battle ...

aka the Plasma Sword, was the star of the show, with its devastating glowing blades granting us scoreboard domination. [Arnov Sharma] has now built a quality replica of this science-fiction weapon.

"The Vikings do move about an awful lot so it is probably not as surprising as you might think to find Arabic replicas - if you look at the stuff found at Viking sites it's incredibly far reaching.

As well as sword, the body had been buried ... To learn more about Viking ship building the museum has since built a replica of the small warship, known as Skuldelev 5, using Viking techniques.

MICHIGAMME, Mich. (WLUC) - A Michigamme resident took a Viking boat replica out on Michigamme Lake Sunday. Tim Eldridge spent ...

Only fragments survive, but evidence suggests Viking sails were roughly square shaped and made of wool dyed in bold colors or stripes to signify ownership, group identity, and status. The mast ...

Shetland's famous Up Helly Aa fire festival has seen the traditional dramatic burning of a replica Viking longship. For the first time in the event's 143-year-old history, women and girls joined ...

The island's location in the Irish Sea made it a useful hub for travellers, traders and seafarers alike and Viking items in the national collections range from fishing hooks and needles to swords ...

Balancing a brawny Viking mythology with the ramshackle comedy of a Judd Apatow production — the Apatow troupe members Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse all do voice work ...