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The Viking Answer Lady One of the best general information Viking sites on the web. Regularly updated, well-researched.   
Viking Today Magazine This is a magazine dedicated to Vikings and their history. The magazine also covers subjects related to Vikings and their contemporary descedents.       
The Viking Rune: Norse Vikings and All Things Scandinavian This site covers many topics on both the Viking Age and Scandinavia in the Post-Viking period. The site is stuffed full of fascinating articles about everything Viking, from DNA research based on Viking remains, to tattoos and symbols, to literal translations of runes, to obscure details about weaponry and sword-craft that I have not encountered anywhere else. The articles are well-written, short, engaging, and easy to read.      
Jorvik Viking Centre The website of the famous York Viking museum based on the findings of the Coppergate Dig, where Viking structures and artifacts were uncovered around 1980. In the "About Vikings" section there are some fascinating details about how scientists reconstruct the appearance of Vikings from their remains.      
The Viking Network Extensive but fairly basic site, though a little hard to navigate. Provides much information, from recipes for authentic Viking food to detailed accounts of Viking raids and battles.
Old Norse News Excellent scholarly blog on topics about Vikings. Gives you some idea of what's going on in the academic field of Old Norse Studies.               
Ravensgard A huge, sprawling collection of links on all things Viking. Rather dated appearance, and many of the links are dead, but still a lot of infomation on topics including modern-day Viking off-shoots like neo-pagan religions and re-enactment groups, bibliographies of children’s books, embroidery techniques, online texts of Old Norse literature, information on Viking exploration…you name it, I bet you can find it here.      
BBC Ancient History: Vikings Of course we need BBC! Part historical articles, part building longships, part games. Discusses such topics as the role of women and various Viking raids throughout Britian.   
Explore Vikings! Aggressively unattractive site, but provides a basic description of Vikings and links to other more Viking sites. It does offer some Viking activities like cooking a Viking meal, making Viking clothes, and constucting a Viking ship model.  
Jesse L. Byock's The Viking Site Byock is a renowned translator of Old Norse literature, and his site contains links to the sagas, articles about Vikings, videos about Vikings, and lots of other cool things. Worth one’s while.  
Encyclopedia Britannica Site on Vikings A general information site about the history and origins of Viking culture in Europe.  Has a lot of great links to more specific information like literature, romance, longships, weapons, etc.  
Norse and Viking Ramblings Very good scholarly blog about Old Norse and Viking Studies.  
BBC Primary History Viking Site A BBC site about Vikings for elementary-age children. It addresses the basics of historical Viking life, covering  who they were, what everyday life was like, their beliefs, and what happened to them. A good overview that includes a timeline and glossary.   Ragnar’s Viking Page A short and simple webpage: more appreciative than academic. Covers basics of Viking literature as well as runes and where they fit in.  
History Channel’s “How Stuff Works” Viking Site  Basic Q&A site about politics, culture, weapons, and lifestyle.  Interesting site with some videos and a lot of cool external links.  
Nova Online: The Vikings Companion website to NOVA program on Vikings that aired in 2000. The site includes video clips on Viking ships, villages, runes, the Viking diaspora, and an analysis of who the Vikings were.  
Viking Unst Homepage  This site is dedicated to a reconstruction effort going on in Shetland, a small chain of islands in the United Kingdom that was on the way from Scandinavia to Iceland. Evidence has been found here that indicates Vikings used it as a stopover on the journey to Iceland. The group that publishes the website wants to preserve some of the architecture left over and make it into a learning experience.  
Top Ten Myths About Vikings Funster's debunking of the most common Viking myths.   Vikingworld: The Wild Life of the Vikings Primarily focused on Vikings in Denmark, ‘Vikingworld’ provides information on the Viking history of Denmark from references to the country in the Norse sagas to the Danish Kings.    
The British Museum's Viking Page This link to the British Museum website enables you to take a virtual tour of some of the Museum’s Viking artefacts, providing information about the Vikings and about the artefacts themselves.       
About.Com Medieval History: Vikings Large collection of links on Vikings.  
The Museum of Foteviken This is the website for the Museum of Foteviken with the Viking Reserve. The Viking Reserve is an area of Viking reconstruction and re-enactment. It includes historical recreations of ships and buildings, along with special articles about hola stones and Birka, a large Viking town in Sweden. It lends an authentic look at Viking life.  
The Viking Society for Northern Research Founded in 1892 as the Orkney, Shetland and Northern Society, or Viking Club, to promote interest in the Scadanavian North, its literature and antiquities.