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The Icelandic Saga Database is a website dedicated to making the sagas of the Icelanders available online. The sagas are predominantly in modern Iceland, but some are provided in Old Norse, and translated versions of many are available in Danish,…

This PhD thesis examines how houses were used in the Viking Age and medieval period, and compares archaeological evidence with the medieval Icelandic sagas.

The Icelandic horse is a breed of horse from Iceland that developed from horses taken to Iceland by the original Viking settlers. It is small, often pony-sized, but very hardy.

Pagan Scandinavians ate horse meat as part of their religious…

Knattleikr is a game known from the Icelandic sagas. It's rules are not known, but it is known that it involved a bat and a ball, and that people could get injured playing it. This article discusses an attempt to recreate the game.

Stone cup from Yell. Donated by Robert Tulloch, Lerwick. ARC 7540.