University compiling world's largest online Viking database

Soaring interest in the Vikings has prompted an Irish university to try to set up the world’s largest online information service about them.

UCC decided the timing was right, as the popularity of the TV series Vikings, has created huge interest in the ferocious Norsemen, who ruled the waves from 800-1066 AD. They roamed so far they left settlements all over Europe, Greenland, and even North America.

Interest in them is likely to peak with actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ role in the fifth season of Vikings.