Vikings Archive
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Vikings’ demise on foreign soil – a case of ethnic cleansing?
Posted on March 8, 2014 | No CommentsThe discovery of two mass graves in England in 2010 containing the remains of Scandinavian men in their prime from the Viking age against the historical backdrop of Anglo-Saxon England has elicited questions as to whether or not they were victims of ethnic cleansing. -
Vikings – Review of Season 2 Episode 2: Invasion
Posted on March 7, 2014 | No Comments'Now we are ready and this summer we shall go to England.' -
Book Review: An Early Meal: A Viking Age Cookbook and Culinary Odyssey
Posted on March 6, 2014 | No CommentsA book that any non-academic Viking-enthusiast would love to have on their shelf or in their kitchen. -
Vikings in Cinema: a Case Study of How to Train Your Dragon
Posted on March 4, 2014 | No CommentsThis paper combines archaeological attention to the past (the Vikings and their material culture, beliefs and so on and a Žižekian fascination with Hollywood films to examine How to Train Your Dragon (2010), a 3-D animated film about Vikings for children. -
Arctic encounters between Norse and Natives
Posted on March 3, 2014 | No CommentsContact between the Norse and Native peoples in Canada's Arctic was more extensive and earlier than first believed, according to recent archaeological evidence. -
Vikings – Review of Season 2 Episode 1: Brother’s War
Posted on February 28, 2014 | No CommentsWhile the first part of this episode shows that Ragnar is a leader of men, the second half reveals how terrible he is with women! -
Vikings set to conquer TV in Season 2
Posted on February 25, 2014 | No CommentsFans of the TV show Vikings don't have to wait much longer to see what happened to Ragnar, Rollo and Lagertha as the second season begins airing on February 27th. -
Antiquarians, Archaeologists, and Viking Fortifications
Posted on February 17, 2014 | No CommentsThis article addresses the depth of our knowledge regarding Viking fortifications in England, Scotland, and Wales, assessing perceptions of them as a monument type -
BOOKS: Daily Life in the Middle Ages
Posted on February 16, 2014 | No CommentsEver wonder how monks, women and Vikings lived their day to day lives in the Middle Ages? These books will give you a glimpse into their world. -
The politico-religious landscape of medieval Karelia
Posted on February 14, 2014 | No CommentsIn historical sources the Karelians appear in the 12th century although archaeological excavations suggest that the amalgamation of groups of Baltic Finns, centered on the Karelian Isthmus, that came together from east and west respectively to form them originated in the late Iron Age and early Viking Age. -
The Vikings and Baron Dupuytren’s disease
Posted on February 8, 2014 | No CommentsDupuytren’s disease (DD) is an ancient affliction of unknown origin. It is defined by Dorland as shortening, thickening, and fibrosis of the palmar fascia producing a flexion deformity of a finger. -
Norse Rune code cracked
Posted on February 7, 2014 | No CommentsA scholar of the University of Oslo has cracked one of the rune codes used by the Vikings, revealing they were sending each other messages such as 'Kiss me'. -
Warriors and warfare: ideal and reality in early insular texts
Posted on February 6, 2014 | No CommentsThis thesis investigates several key aspects of warfare and its participants in the Viking Age insular world via a comparison of the image which warriors occupy in heroic literature to their concomitant depiction in sources which are primarily nonliterary in character, such as histories, annalistic records, and law codes. -
The Royal Residence at Tissø in the Viking Age
Posted on January 23, 2014 | No CommentsA 3D animation film visualizing the royal complex at the time around 900 AD. -
Kings, chieftains and public cult in pre-Christian Scandinavia
Posted on January 22, 2014 | No CommentsThe article addresses the question of the performance of pre-Christian public cult by political leaders in early medieval Scandinavia. -
Víking – ’rower shifting’? An etymological contribution
Posted on January 18, 2014 | No CommentsThere is an extensive literature on the etymology of víking f. ‘freebooting voyage’ and víkingr m. ‘sea warrior’, but none of the well-known suggestions are satisfactory. -
The Acculturation of Scandinavians in England: A consideration of the burial record
Posted on January 11, 2014 | No Commentshe portrayal of the ‘Vikings’ as an archetypal barbarian ‘other,’ wreaking death and destruction wherever they went, was already current in the medieval period, but in England the depictions became more extreme in the centuries after the attacks. -
On the windy edge of nothing: Vikings in the North Atlantic World
Posted on December 29, 2013 | No CommentsWith a focus upon the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland, Kevin Edwards will present a select narrative of past and recent writings, archaeological enquiry and scientific research concerning the Norse settlement of the North Atlantic. -
Chaucer’s reading list: Sir Thopas, Auchinleck, and Middle English romances in translation
Posted on December 29, 2013 | No CommentsOne frustration of engaging in any branch of European medieval studies as an academic pursuit is that few claim expertise about the ancient or Roman worlds, but seemingly everyone on an internet discussion forum believes him or herself knowledgeable about the medieval period, usually based on patently false beliefs. -
Feeding the micel here in England c. 865-878
Posted on December 25, 2013 | No CommentsFeeding the micel here in England c. 865-878 Shane McLeod Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, Volume 3 (2007) Abstract With the question of the probable size of ninth-century […] -
In the footsteps of the Norsemen
Posted on December 18, 2013 | No CommentsIt was a land with plenty of opportunities when the Viking Erik the Red settled in Greenland over 1000 years ago. -
Viking slaves were beheaded and buried as grave gifts, archaeological find suggests
Posted on December 15, 2013 | No CommentsAn archaeological research project on the northern Norwegian island of Flakstad has revealed new details about the lives and deaths of people who live during the Viking era -
The Viking Age and the Crusades Era in Yngvars saga víðförla
Posted on December 1, 2013 | No CommentsThe 'Saga of Ingvar the Far-Traveller' is based on a reliable fact, justified by about 25 runic inscriptions which date to the first half of the eleventh century, that a military expedition, led by Ingvar, went from Sweden to Eastern Europe, then moved to the South or to the South-West and perished there. -
Aethelflaed, Lady of Mercia
Posted on November 28, 2013 | No CommentsOf all the medieval women I have researched and written about, Aethelflaed is by far my favorite. She was the daughter of Alfred the Great and was instrumental in carrying out his vision for a united Britain. -
Why did Vinland fail?
Posted on November 26, 2013 | No CommentsBrigitta Wallace, one of the leading scholars on the Vikings in North America, examines why their settlements failed.
