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How to make Viking costumes for kids (or grown-ups)
A blog post about making Viking costumes. it includes lists of what you need and instructions for making the elements of each costume.
Blog: Viking-Age Metalwork
A blog describing research into Viking-Age metalwork by Jane Kershaw
News: In Japan Vikings Are All-You-Can-Eat Buffets
A blog post about the origin of the naming of buffets (or Smörgåsbords) in Japan 'Vikings', from TOFUGU LLC
Words on Words: The Meaning of Ragnarok
A blog post about what Ragnarok means by Professor Judith Jesch of the University of Nottingham.
Blog post: Past to Paper: The Vikings
A blog post about different ways in which Vikings might be used in fiction.
Blog post: Vikings galore!
A blog post with photographs of Viking reenactors in Sweden.
Blog: Het Vikinglanghuis
A Dutch blog about the Vikings.
Blog: Gjallar - Noormannen in de Lage Landen
A website about the Norsemen and the Vikings in the Low Countries.
Blog: Renorseful - Undead Scandinavian languages in modern culture
Dr Maja Bäckvall's blog on Norse imagery and language in modern culture. The blog features many uses of runes in video games, among other topics.
Blog: The Quest - Vikings
Author Patricia Bracewell describes her day out to visit the location where History Channel's 'Vikings' is filmed.
Mondes normands médiévaux
Le carnet MNM se veut une entrée vers les recherches qui intéressent les mondes normands médiévaux, entendu au sens large pour désigner d’une part l’espace occupé ou colonisé par les Scandinaves aux VIIIe-XIe siècle et de l’autre les…
Brooches and Smokkr: A Viking Paper Doll
A printable Viking paper doll with clothes and accessories that can be cut out and coloured in.
Blog: Everyday Monstrosity
A blog that is primarily about monsters, but with reference to the author's research into monsters in the Icelandic sagas.
Blog post: Iceland: Dramatic Viking Movie Set and Black Sand Dune Beach
The blog post features photographs of a Viking movie set in Iceland.
Words on Words: The Viking Berserker
A blog post about the meaning of Old Norse 'berserkr'.
Blog: The Day of St Olaf
A blog post about an immigrant's first experience of St Olaf's Day in Norway
Blog: Books and Boots
A blog with descriptions of, and links to items about, the Icelandic sagas.
Sofie Vanherpen's Blog
Items from Sofie Vanherpen's Blog centred around her PhD-project on Auðr/Unnr djúp(a)úðga Ketilsdóttir (9th Century).
Blog post: Kvöldvaka
Kvöldvaka is the name of an Old Norse reading and translation group set up by Marjolein Stern and Sofie Vanherpen in Ghent, Belgium. Kvöldvaka brings together a small eclectic group of people from Belgium and the Netherlands who share a love for…
Blog post: ‘Tis the season …
Book review of a modern take on Auðr/Unnr djúp(a)uðga's story by Vilborg Davíðsdóttir. Two novels of a trilogy have been published already. The first is entitled "Auður", the second "Vígroði".