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Vikingtiden
A short essay on the Viking Age from the Oseberg Båtlag blog.
Wiki: Heimskringla
Heimskringla is an online collection of Old Norse source material.
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…
The Vikings for Kids
A website with numerous resources for teaching younger children about the Vikings
Legends & Chronicles: The Vikings
Short descriptions of various aspects of Viking life explained with only occasional inaccuracies (such as stating that the Viking Age began c. 700 AD instead of later in the eighth century).
Education Scotland: Vikings
A short essay about the Vikings with links to other resources.
The Vikings - A Short Educational FIlm
A short educational video about the Vikings done as a project for a Western Civilization class.
The Vikings - In a nutshell
Vikings, Norse seafarers who left their homelands in Scandinavia to raid, trade, explore, and settle in wide areas of Europe, Asia, and the North Atlantic islands, from the late 8th to the mid-11th centuries. Learn it all in a Nutshell.
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Memorial to Arthur Laurenson with Quote from Hávamál in Runes
Memorial in Lerwick Town Hall to Alfred Laurenson, a local dignitary, patron and scholar of Scandinavian literature, who died in 1890.
The memorial includes representations of Viking ships, a raven, and a rather confused runic inscription which…
The memorial includes representations of Viking ships, a raven, and a rather confused runic inscription which…
Blog: Gjallar - Noormannen in de Lage Landen
A website about the Norsemen and the Vikings in the Low Countries.
Dorestad onthuld
A history of Dorestad, a trading town in the Viking Age that was raided several times.
Britons, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in West Yorkshire
An introduction to the early medieval period in West Yorkshire.
Great British Viking Quest: Episode 1: Journey to the Mainland
EPISODE 1 of the Great British Viking Quest #GBVQ.
I take a bumpy flight across the ocean to speak at 'The Viking World - Diversity and Change' international conference at the University of Nottingham's Centre for Viking Studies. The event 'marks…
I take a bumpy flight across the ocean to speak at 'The Viking World - Diversity and Change' international conference at the University of Nottingham's Centre for Viking Studies. The event 'marks…
Information Board on the Viking History of Youghal
Information board about the Vikings in Youghal Heritage Centre and Tourist Office
The Song of the Vikings, Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths with Nancy Marie Brown
Nancy Marie Brown takes us back to medieval Iceland and introduces us to perhaps the greatest storyteller of the period, Snorri Sturluson. Part of the Art and Culture Series at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum.
Hávamál: The Wisdom of Odin (Totally Awesome History)
In this episode we take a look at the "Hávamál": a text written as part of the Poetic Edda in late 13th Century Iceland. Hávamál means "the Words of the High One"; the High One being Odin, chief of the Norse gods. Dig it!
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22. Vikings / The European Prospect, 1000
The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000 (HIST 210)
In the first part of this lecture, Professor Freedman discusses the emergence of the Vikings from Scandinavia in the ninth and tenth centuries. The Vikings were highly adaptive, raiding (the…
In the first part of this lecture, Professor Freedman discusses the emergence of the Vikings from Scandinavia in the ninth and tenth centuries. The Vikings were highly adaptive, raiding (the…
Bloody Britain - 08/10 - the vikings
Episode 08 of Rory McGrath's comical look at some of the nastier moments in British History. This one begins with the first raid of THE VIKINGS in 793.
History World - The Vikings
Short articles about the Vikings.
Det Brente Skipet
Documentary about a huge and spectacular, but forgotten viking burialmound, excavated in 1874. English subtitles. (p) 2009
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