However, sources are unreliable (the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok has him slaying a dragon), and while it’s possible that there was a man under the name Ragnar Lothbrok, the Viking warrior as he’s known is most likely a combination of different figures with a dash of fiction to add to...
How big was Ragnar Lothbrok's army? Longships The Viking secret weapon was their longships. It cannot be stressed enough how revolutionary they were. They were an ocean-going ship capable of reaching virtually anywhere in Europe from Scandanavia but shallow draft enough to sail up rivers or...
Is Ragnar Lothbrok real? If he is, provide a brief biographical description. Was William the Conqueror a Viking? Were the Vikings Norwegian? Did Harald Fairhair exile the Vikings? Did Rollo fight the Vikings? Were the Vikings from Denmark? Was Erik the Red a viking? Are Finns Norsemen?