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Tunsberghus Fortress
Tunsberghus fortress was a royal castle and palace on top of Slottsfjellet in Tonsberg. The present remains are medieval, but there may have been a fortification in the Viking Age too. The castle is mentioned in Sverris saga. It was expanded by…
Statue of Prinsesse Kristina
A statue of Prinsesse Kristina, daughter of Hakon Hakonsson and wife of Don Felipe, who was the brother of the Spanish king Alfonso X. She married him in 1258. This statue is a copy of one standing in Covarrubias, Spain.
Loft (Storehouse) from Telemark
A medieval storehouse from Telemark.
Medieval Farmhouse
A Norwegian farmhouse from the second half of the thirteenth century.
Medieval Lyre
A medieval lyre from c.1300. It has the same form as the lyre featured on the Hylestad church portal.
Replica of Church Portal from Hylestad Stave Church
Replica of the carvings of the portal to Hylestad stave church. The carvings show scenes from the Sigurd legend.
Primstav
A primstav is a calendar stick that uses pictures to indicate the major non-moving religious holidays. The pictures on this one are rune-like. The oldest surviving primstav dates to 1457.
Gol Stave Church
Gol Stave Church was moved to the Folkemuseum in the late 19th century. Only about one third of the surviving church was used (those parts that were thought to be medieval). The church that stands at the Folkemuseum now was modelled on Borgund Stave…
The "Devil of Oslo"
This relief is in the wall of Oslo cathedral. It depicts a man beset by beasts or devils, and was originally in St Hallvard's Cathedral. Iconographically, it is similar to the figure beset by beasts motif that is a feature of some earlier runestones…
Medieval Oslo
The layout of part of medieval Oslo is shown with log walls one or two layers high and the cord roads in between them. This gives a sense of how narrow these streets could be.
Lewis Chessman Berserker Model
A model of one of the Lewis Chessmen warder figures, bought in Stornoway in 2015.
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…
Project: Stories for all time: The Icelandic fornaldarsögur
Stories for all time is a research project based at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Nordic research (Nordisk Forskningsinstitut). It aims to survey the transmission history of the Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda or legendary sagas.
Lewis Chessmen
The Lewis chessmen were found in 1831 at Uig on Lewis in the Hebrides. They were probably made in Trondheim, Norway in the late 12th or early 13th century. They are on display at the National Museum of Scotland
Modern Poets on Viking Poetry
Modern Poets on Viking Poetry is a cultural engagement scheme based at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge. It is funded by the AHRC. The project aims to create cross-cultural engagement between modern and Viking…
Menota - Medieval Nordic Text Archive
Menota is a network of archives, libraries and research departments working with medieval texts and manuscript facsimilies. The website links to numerous resources related to this topic.
Medieval Animal Data-Network
The international Medieval Animal Data-Network (MAD) was founded in 2005 at the Department of Medieval Studies at Central European University (Budapest) as an attempt to bring together multi-stranded intellectual thought concerning human-animal…
Faroese stamp 059 Featuring the Rune Stone in Sandavágur
Faroese Stamp from 1981 featuring the Sandavágur Rune Stone (FR 2 M) which memorializes the first settler in Sandavágur. See item #649
Guide to the classics: the Icelandic saga
A brief introduction to the Icelandic sagas.
Rune stone (U 370)
Rune stone in Herresta,Uppland (U 370).
According to theSamnordisk runtextdatabasthis stone carries a nonsense inscription. It may be medieval rather than Viking Age.