Gesta Danorum News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Hamlet, in full Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1599–1601 and published in a quarto edition in 1603 from an unauthorized text, with reference to an earlier play. The First Folio version was taken from a second quarto of 1604 that was based on Shakespeare’s own papers with some annotations by the bookkeeper. Shakespeare’s telling of the story of Prince Hamlet was derived from several sources, notably from Books III and IV of Saxo Grammaticus’s 12th-century Gesta Danorum and from volume 5 (1570) of Histoires tragiques, a free transla...

Naval archaeologists managed to salvage and reconstruct five scuttled Skuldelev Viking ships found in Roskilde Fjord Denmark to provide insight into Viking shipbuilding.

Ragnar Lothbrok was a fearless Viking hero who ransacked England and France and fathered the Great Heathen Army. However the historicity of the man with “hairy breeches” is subject to debate. Where does Ragnar the man end and the myth begin?

The ‘Runamo Runes’ are one of archaeology's most embarrassing blunders. For centuries, scholars argued that natural rock cracks were ancient runes.

Some of the most famous Vikings are Ragnar Lothbrok and his sons but there are others of equal notoriety.