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Icelandic T-Shirt, Egils Beer
T-Shirt advertising Egils Brewery, depicting a Viking drinking from a horn with the caption 'Choice of Vikings'. Viking imagery is used widely in the Icelandic brewing industry.
Information about Sólfar / Sun Voyager sculpture
Sólfar / Sun Voyager by artist Jón Gunnar Árnason is often described as a Viking ship, when in fact the inspiration is more complex, as this information put together by the artist's daughter, Thorbjörg Jónsdóttir, explains. The document…
Innocent Drinks V-for-Viking Magnet
Innocent produced a series of magnets featuring letters of the alphabet illustrated by an object or subject starting with this letter. Here we see V illustrated by Vikings, using the most well known symbolism of horned helmets, shield, axe and ship.…
Leaflet about the Sólfar / Sun Voyager sculpture in Reykjavík
Information leaflet about the Sólfar sculpture, often described as a 'Viking ship' and the artist Jón Gunnar Árnason.
Logo of Armour All screwdriver set
Armour All is a company producing automotive care technologies. Their logo is a Viking with horned helmet, as photographed here in a store in Cork, Ireland. You can see the development of the logo on the history section of their website:…
Map of the Viking World with Norse placenames
A map of the Viking world as named by (or as known to) the Norse peoples. Whilst the names are not entirely accurate (and include a few not recorded in Norse sources), it does illustrate the extent of Norse activity.
Monty Python - Spam (featuring Vikings!)
The origin of SPAM.
A clip from Monty Python's Flying Circus involving spam-loving vikings with horned helmets!
A clip from Monty Python's Flying Circus involving spam-loving vikings with horned helmets!
Nazi Propaganda Poster, on display in the Swedish History Museum
The Nazis used the image of the Viking and an appeal to 'Nordic' identity in order to claim common ground with, and recruit from, the occupied countries of Denmark and Norway. Items like this now serve as a sage reminder that Viking 'branding' has…
News Item: Soldiers of Odin, dubbed 'extreme anti-refugee group,' patrol Edmonton streets
This is a news article from the CBC website about the activities of an extreme anti-refugee group dubbed the 'soldiers of Odin'. Their logo is a viking (with horned helmet) with a Canadian flag as a beard. Organisations such as this are a reminder…
News: Did Leif Erikson once live in Cambridge, Massachusetts?
A discussion of the legendary Norse city of Norumbega, as postulated by Prof. Eben Norton Horsford. Horsford was an early food chemist who became an amateur archaeologist. He claimed to have found Norse artefacts in Cambridge MA, and put a plaque…
Northlink Ferry in Lerwick, Shetland
Photo of Northlink Ferries in Lerwick, Shetland. Their logo features a pointing Viking with flowing hair and a horned helmet. Northlink operates between Scotland and the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland.
Orkney Smoked Cheddar with Viking Branding
Orkney Smoked Cheddar from the Island Smokery in Stromness, Orkney. It includes the tagline ''The Way the Vikings Like It' and a cartoon image of a Viking, with an axe and horned helmet.
Pink Ireland Supporter's Hat
A 'Viking' style Irish horned hat from Landsdowne Kid's Hats, seen in Dublin airport. One of the few examples of appropriation of Viking and Norse culture at a national level.
Postcard depicting a modern commemorative "runestone" in the Jardin des Plantes, Rouen.
Postcard depicting a modern commemorative "runestone" in the Jardin des Plantes, Rouen – a gift from the Kingdom of Norway. "In 1911 the city of Rouen celebrated the millenium of the founding of the Duchy of Normandy and the baptism of the…
Promotional material for Vikings Steakhouse in Clontarf
Use of Clontarf's Norse history and the Viking brand (including horned helmet) in this restaurant - the Vikings Steakhouse
Riders of Asgard - Official Trailer
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Riders of Asgard BMX Game
A game produced by South African Independent Games Development company, Gobbo Games. The game describes itself as "much more than your average, run-of-the-mill, Viking BMX Game." The game plays on stereotypes such as horned helmets, and is playfully…
Runica Nordica Souvenir, Spain
This souvenir was seen in Vigo, Galicia, with the label 'Runica Nordica'. There are several designs, which all seem to be a combination of runes with geometric shapes, and an accompanying value (such as 'love'). There is little discernible connection…
Shieldmaidens in the news
A study of burials of Norse migrants was trumpeted by the popular press as showing that half of all Viking warriors were women.1 This is not the case as Tracy V. Wilson explained on her blog. The study focused on a small sample of Norse migrants and…
Silver plated teaspoon with Viking torso
A silver plated teaspoon: the handle ends in a viking figure, complete with horned helmet. Produced by Tradition. Date unknown.