Shieldmaiden in the Kitchen
Shieldmaiden in the Kitchen is a YouTube channel by Terri Barnes, a medievalist historian who focuses on the Viking Age. On the channel she combines and shares her love of history and cooking with how-to videos and recipes.
The Norse were definitely at L’Anse aux Meadows in 1021, study finds
The Norse presence in North America has been attested to by written accounts and archaeological evidence. Now, an international team of scientists have…
I’m a Viking!: A History Book About the Vikings for Kids
A new children’s book by C.J. Adrien offers a day in the life of a young Viking boy.
The Battle of Brunanburh
In the year 937, Æthelstan, King of England, found himself under attack from a coalition of his enemies. In this episode of Bow and Blade, Michael and Kelly tell us about the Battle of Brunanburh, including where it was fought and the amazing poem about the battle preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Women and Men of the Viking Age
Professor Sanmark’s lecture will discuss gender roles in the Viking Age, with particular attention to how women and men have been perceived in previous research.
Harald Hardrada: Exiled Prince
Harald was born into a dynasty that in short order had become a major fulcrum of political and cultural change in Norway, only to be forced into exile when they fell afoul of an enemy better positioned to capitalise upon these emerging innovations.
Harald Hardrada: An Exemplar of the Age
Hardrada’s journeys and his interaction with the overlapping cultures and political entities that he encountered are so fascinating and valuable to examine from a global history perspective, precisely because they illuminate this interconnectivity.
Viking-Age embroidered textiles found in woman’s grave
To an untrained eye, the artefact looks brown and dull, but it is actually something very special: embroidered wool fabric more than 1000 years old, preserved on top of a turtle brooch.
The Viking Phenomenon: Paradigms, Parameters, and Progress
Rejecting the illusory notion of a ‘smoking gun’ or any single trigger factor, we are exploring the longer time depth of the Viking phenomenon further back into the late Iron Age (following Nordic terminology), the varied ethnicities and identities of ‘Vikings’, and the structures of economy and politics that underpinned their developing diaspora.
What you can see at the new Galloway Hoard exhibition
The long-awaited exhibition Galloway Hoard has begun, now open at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Discovered in 2014, the hoard is one of the richest collections of rare and unique Viking-age objects ever found in the British Isles.
Looking for Viking ship burials with a 17th-century illustration
New detailed surveys of Viking age ship settings in Hjarnø, Denmark have been completed by archaeologists examining the origins and makeup of the Kalvestene grave field, a renowned site in Scandinavian folklore.
Monastic tenants, Viking raiders and Hiberno-Norse townspeople
What should we understand by town and what should we understand by viking? It is abundantly clear that both of these terms are understood and used in a great variety of ways.
Viking trousers, missing for over a hundred years, discovered again
Archaeologists in Denmark have found the remains of a Viking elite individual lost for over 100 years. Attached textile fragments are already shedding light on this important person, revealing he was wearing a pair of uniquely decorated long trousers.
Viking Wirral after the Battle of Brunanburh AD 937
Although still not proven, all the evidence seems to be pointing at a Wirral location (and probably Bebington) for the famous Battle of Brunanburh.
The Last Kingdom: Putting Bernard Cornwell’s epic on screen
One of the most popular medieval-based television series in recent years has been The Last Kingdom. Let’s take a look at the show and the novels it was based on.
From Vikings to Castles: A Journey to Studying Medieval Scotland, with Kate Buchanan
In this episode of Scotichronicast we turn things around a bit, as Kate Buchanan is the guest, talking about her journey to graduate school, studying medieval Scottish history, and castles and their landscapes.
Viking Warriors in Poland: Overcoming Identity Crisis
By re-analysing the most iconic graves from these sites, it will be demonstrated that their contents can provide fascinating insights not into Scandinavian but actually into West Slavic warrior identity.
Viking Woman’s Grave discovered in Norway
She was placed in a burial chamber and took several hundred miniature beads with her on her last journey. Who was the woman who was buried by Valsøyfjord over 1000 years ago?
Gjellestad was a major Viking burial ground, new research reveals
The ground-penetrating radar data showed 13 burial mounds once existed at Gjellestad, some over 30 metres wide.
Viking family members to be reunited after 1,000 years
The remains of two Vikings from the same family – one in England and the other in Denmark – are to be reunited more than 1,000 years after their deaths, with help from Oxfordshire County Council’s Museum Service.
Largest-ever study of Viking genetics reveals new insights
The largest genetic study of the Vikings ever done has just been published, and offers surprising discoveries about the medieval warriors, including that they may not be quite as Nordic as hitherto believed.
The Vikings in the eyes of a Byzantine Emperor
De Administrando Imperio is one of the first Byzantine accounts of contact between their empire and the Vikings.
Viking helmet discovered in England
In the 1950s a corroded, damaged helmet was discovered in the small town of Yarm in northeast England. It has been on display for decades at a local museum. Now, new research has shown that it dates back to the tenth century Anglo-Scandinavian (Viking) helmet, the first ever found in Britain and only the second nearly complete Viking helmet found in the world.
The Vikings also suffered from Smallpox, researchers find
The fatal disease smallpox is older and more widespread than scientists have first thought.