The Ljudota Sword? An Episode of Contacts Between Britain and Scandinavia in the Late Viking Age
At the end of the 19th century, a sword dating from the Late Viking Age was found near Hvoshcheve village in Ukraine.
What did the Viking Discoverers of America Know of the North Atlantic Environment?
The uncontroversial evidence is therefore meager, but there are hints that the Norse did indeed appreciate many facets of North Atlantic oceanography, meteorology and climate.
The Bayeux Tapestry and the Vikings
How did the Bayeux Tapestry, with its images of Normans and Englishmen, come to be so strongly equated with the legendary Vikings in the popular imagination?
NOTES AND COMMENTARIES: ONCE AGAIN ABOUT THE SO-CALLED ‘VIKING SHIP’ AT BASARABI-MURFATLAR
NOTES AND COMMENTARIES: ONCE AGAIN ABOUT THE SO-CALLED ‘VIKING SHIP’ AT BASARABI-MURFATLAR Agrigoroaei, Vladimir Studia Patzinaka, 6, 2008, pp.147-152 Abstract One of the…
A Viking period workshop in Staraya Ladoga, excavated in 1997
A Viking period workshop in Staraya Ladoga, excavated in 1997 By Anatoliy N. Kirpichnikov Fornvannen: Journal of Swedish Antiquarian Research, Vol. 99 (2004) Abstract:…
Konungur, Herkonungur, Godi: Power Dynamics in the Viking Age
Konungur, Herkonungur, Godi: Power Dynamics in the Viking Age Stevens, Keith The Endnote vol.2 (2005) Abstract The Viking Age was a time of…
L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland
L’Anse aux Meadows has been a National Historic Site since 1977. Parks Canada operates a Visitor Centre which displays artifacts discovered during the archeological excavations.
The Norse in Newfoundland: L’Anse aux Meadows and Vinland
The Norse in Newfoundland: L’Anse aux Meadows and Vinland By Birgitta Wallace Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, Vol. 19:1 (2003) Introduction: One thousand years…
Introducing Medieval Scandinavia
A four-video series outlining the scope of the medieval Scandinavian world and some of its major cultural, political and literary characteristics.
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman By Nancy Marie Brown Harcourt, 2007 ISBN: 978-0151014408 Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named…
The Vikings in the Isle of Man
The Vikings in the Isle of Man By David M. Wilson Aarhus University Press, 2008 ISBN: 87 7934 370 8 The Isle of Man…
Gods and Worshippers in the Viking and Germanic world
Gods and Worshippers in the Viking and Germanic world By Thor Ewing Termpus Publishing, 2008 ISBN 978-0752435909 What was paganism really like? Who…
Making and Using the Law in the North, c. 900-1350
It is clear that medieval Nordic law was transmitted orally long before it was written down. The Icelandic Free State law-book known as the Grágás, for example, specifically addresses its audience, reminding them that “tomorrow we go to the law mountain” Various other stylistic traits indicate previous oral transmission.
An Eleventh-Century Farmhouse in the Norse Colonies in Greenland
An Eleventh-Century Farmhouse in the Norse Colonies in Greenland By C.L. Vebaek The Fourth Viking Congress, ed. Alan Small (Edinburgh, 1961) Click…
Brian Boru: King, High-King, and Emperor of the Irish
This dissertation studies the career of Brian ‘Bórumha’ mac Cennétig from its beginning with his election to the kingship of his ancestral kingdom of Dál Cais in 976 until his death as the high-king of Ireland at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014.
