Vikings Archive
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Viking Canada
Posted on July 23, 2014 | No CommentsNewfoundland is at the heart of what we may consider to be ‘Viking Canada.’ -
Making Sacrifices: Beowulf and Film
Posted on July 21, 2014 | No CommentsThis essay reviews opening scenes in some recent film Beowulfs, which, although they have nothing at all to say about Scyld Scefing, suggest a sacrificial reading of the prologue and perhaps even the whole poem. -
War or Peace? The Relations Between the Picts and the Norse in Orkney
Posted on July 18, 2014 | No CommentsThis article will focus mainly on the earliest period of Norse settlement, before the Norse earldom was established. -
Women and Ships in the Viking World
Posted on July 13, 2014 | No CommentsPerhaps the most splendid, and certainly one of the best-known, burials of the Viking Age is that of the two women who were put to rest in the Oseberg ship. -
Viking-Age Queens and the Formation of Identity
Posted on July 12, 2014 | No CommentsOne may ask, then, not why there exists such a paucity of these women in the written record, but why any are mentioned at all, and for what purposes? -
Viking Human Sacrifices: Hollywood vs Reality
Posted on July 6, 2014 | No CommentsIn his article, 'Plastic Pagans: Viking Human Sacrifice in Film and Television', Harry Brown notes a very key difference between how it is being portrayed and how it was in reality. -
The effects of Viking activity on Scandinavian society
Posted on June 29, 2014 | No CommentsThree ways in which Viking raids and conquests in western Europe affected Scandinavian society are discussed -
The Vikings in Normandy and Brittany
Posted on June 28, 2014 | No CommentsDr David Petts (Durham University) tells us about his research in northern France: an area in which we know the Vikings to be elusive -
Kingdom, emporium and town: the impact of Viking Dublin
Posted on June 24, 2014 | No CommentsIn recent years the precise location and nature of Viking Dublin have been much debated. It is now generally accepted that there was a longphort phase from 841 to 902: a period of enforced exile from 902 to 917, and thereafter a dún phase. -
Climatic Change and the North Atlantic Seaways During the Norse Expansion
Posted on June 24, 2014 | No CommentsIn order to appreciate how the Norse expansion might have been influenced by climatic fluctuations it is necessary to consider in outline the mechanisms which control weather and climate in the North Atlantic area at the present day, and which also obtained in the past. -
Memorial to Athelney Island, Home of Alfred the Great
Posted on June 18, 2014 | No CommentsAlfred was forced to flee with his family to safety in the woods and eventually made his way to the island of Athelney in the marshes of Somerset. -
The Carolingian Army and the Struggle against the Vikings
Posted on June 18, 2014 | No CommentsThere have been many previous studies of the Carolingian army, but none examining the ninth-century armies which faced the Viking invasions. -
A Grave Revisited: On Grave Robbery in Viking Age Iceland
Posted on June 14, 2014 | No CommentsAre they broken into for social or religious reason or perhaps for simpler reasons of plunder? -
The Vikings and their Filed Teeth
Posted on June 12, 2014 | No CommentsHow some Vikings had their teeth filed - a painful way to have a new smile! -
Anglo Saxon and Viking Ship Burial – The British Museum
Posted on June 9, 2014 | No CommentsThis session explores Viking and Anglo Saxon ship burials between the seventh and tenth centuries presented at The British Museum. -
The contribution of insect remains to an understanding of the environment of Viking-age and medieval Dublin
Posted on June 6, 2014 | No CommentsThis paper examines the important contribution that sub-fossil insect remains can make to an understanding of the environment of Viking-age and medieval Dublin. -
10th-century Viking king may have been discovered in Scotland
Posted on June 6, 2014 | No CommentsThese might be the remains of Olaf Guthfrithsson, King of Dublin and Northumbria from 934 to 941. -
CONFERENCES: Sutton Hoo at the British Museum: New directions for the new display
Posted on June 5, 2014 | No CommentsA fascinating talk about the new Sutton Hoo display at the British Museum, given by curator, Dr. Sue Brunning. -
Navegación y embarcaciones en la época vikinga: diferentes fuentes para su estudio (Shipping and navigation in the Viking Age: different sources for study)
Posted on June 4, 2014 | No CommentsThis article (in Spanish) is about Viking shipping and navigation. -
‘Warrior-women’ in Viking Age Scandinavia? A preliminary archaeological study
Posted on June 3, 2014 | No CommentsThis paper seeks to provide a new contribution to the debates on Viking Age women by focusing on a rather controversial notion of ‘female warriors’. The core of the article comprises a preliminary survey of archaeological evidence for female graves with weapons (axes, spears, swords and arrowheads) from Viking Age Scandinavia. -
The Headless Norsemen: Decapitation in Viking Age Scandinavia
Posted on June 3, 2014 | No CommentsI will concentrate my attention only on single and double decapitation burials and mostly those from the area of Scandinavia. What did similar practices mean? What kinds of individuals were subject to decapitation? Were they criminals, slaves, aggressors, deserters swathed in infamy or perhaps unfortunate victims of bloody attacks? -
Viking Nicknames
Posted on June 1, 2014 | No CommentsOf all the various cultures of the Middle Ages, it was probably the Norse who had the best nicknames. Ranging from the Eirik the Red to Ivar the Boneless, the Viking Age has hundreds of interesting and strange nicknames. -
Primstav and Apocalypse Time and its Reckoning in Medieval Scandinavia
Posted on May 22, 2014 | No CommentsThis work is intended as an exploration of methods of time-reckoning and conception in Medieval Scandinavia. In the main this is tied to the dynamism between a duality: that of the cyclical and linear models of time‟s progression. Involved in this study are sources verbal and pictoral. -
How Destructive were the Vikings?
Posted on May 21, 2014 | No CommentsDanielle Trynoski reports on the paper “How Much Material Damage Did the Northmen Do in Northern Europe?” given by Lesley Anne Morden -
Viking Winter Camps
Posted on May 9, 2014 | No CommentsDanielle Trynoski and Matthew Ziebarth talk about their project to locate previously unknown winter camps used by the Vikings during their raids into the British Isles and Western Europe
