Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers excavated the pieces and as they dug deeper into the pile, they found more than ...

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 ...

A newly translated runic inscription has shed light on the Galloway Hoard, considered to be one of the richest collections of Viking-age objects ... at National Museums Scotland, which have ...

Why was the Brough of Birsay, on the north west coast of the mainland of Orkney, Scotland ... have brought the Vikings. Students could consider what different parts of the ruins used to be.

The castle was originally built in the 13th century by Alexander II of Scotland to guard the area against possible Viking invasions ... leaving Eilean Donan in ruins for hundreds of years.

Newly deciphered Viking Age runes carved inside a 1,100-year-old silver arm ring from Scotland suggest that the ornament and the hoard it was buried with were owned by a community, rather than by ...

The island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, is the symbolic centre of Scottish Christianity. Through 1400 years of history its fortunes have fluctuated, from its heights as one of the greatest ...

The annual Viking-inspired fire festival of Up Helly Aa, described by organizers as “a northern Mardi Gras,” was held in the town of Lerwick in Scotland’s Shetland Islands on Tuesday, January 28. The ...

Pictland was remade in a Gaelic image and the Scottish nation was ... Olaf Guthfrithsson restored Viking rule to York and Aethelstan's grand schemes lay in ruins. In 943 AD, after reigning for ...