The departure of Travis Fimmel and his character Ragnar Lothbrok from Vikings took most fans by surprise. It's not every day that a TV show decides to kill off its central and beloved character. But ...

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 ...

Wales was not heavily colonised by Vikings, though they did settle in South West Wales areas including St David's, Haverfordwest and the Gower. Some places, among them Anglesey, Bardsey ...

Gudrun, terrified in equal amounts by his wife and the tortures promised by Redwald, decides his best option is to fake a Viking invasion ...

Fans of juicy historical drama are in luck as Netflix adds all six seasons of Vikings – a meaty political odyssey set in the Dark Ages. The Emmy-winning show, created by Michael Hirst for the ...

Donald took the kingship of the Picts initially, but shortly afterwards was slain by the Vikings – Dark Age kingships were often painfully short! So it was that in his early twenties ...