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Can you help us to identify these performers in Viking dress in Kalundborg, Denmark?
Two musicians playing as part of Kalundborg's Harbour Festival in the Kongens Togt series of events in Summer 2016 to commemorate Cnut's conquest of England.
Poster for Grettir theatreplay based on the Icelandic saga
Billed as 'A theatreplay based on one of the most famous Icelandic sagas', written and produced by Elfar Logi Hannesson for Comedytheatre. Poster seen in the Westfjords.
Magic Sheet lecture 1
An introduction to Old Icelandic/Old Norse grammar via a tour of Alaric's Magic Sheet of Old Norse Inflections (available via http://www.alarichall.org.uk). This video is mainly on asking what Old Icelandic is.
Video: Vikings suite, Trevor Morris and Einar Selvik (FMF 2015: International TV Series Gala)
The song was composed for History's Vikings series, and was composed by Trevor Morris and Einar Selvik, who performs the piece here at the Krakow Film Music Festival. The lyrics are taken from the Eddic poem Völuspá and the skaldic poem…
Performers at the Tønsberg Viking Festival
Performers at the Tønsberg Viking festival perform for and engage with the crowd.
Triquetra - Illuminating York 2013 - Clifford’s Tower (Hyperlink)
The history of three Viking kings (Harald Bluetooth, Sweyn Forkbeard, Cnut the Great) told using sound and video projection mapping as a Son et Lumiere for Illuminating York 2013.
For detailed notes on the history used in this work follow these…
For detailed notes on the history used in this work follow these…
Dramatic Reading of 'Skírnismál' (opening lines)
A performance of the Eddic poem 'Skírnismál' by postgraduates of the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford, during the Old Norse Poetry in Performance (ONPIP) Conference at Somerville College, Friday 24 June. These are the opening lines.
Dramatic Reading of 'Skírnismál' (the curse)
A performance of the Eddic poem 'Skírnismál' by postgraduates of the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford, during the Old Norse Poetry in Performance (ONPIP) Conference at Somerville College, Friday 24 June. This extract is from the curse…
Viking extras sought for performance of novel Røde Orm (Red Serpent)
”Are you a Viking? Be an extra in MoMu’s ’Red Serpent’ spectatular.”
Article in Danish regional newspaper Århus Stiftstidende (26/9/16) about Moesgaard Museum’s call for extras for a performance based on Frans G. Bengtsson’s novel…
Article in Danish regional newspaper Århus Stiftstidende (26/9/16) about Moesgaard Museum’s call for extras for a performance based on Frans G. Bengtsson’s novel…
'Board Games in Boat Burials: Play in the Performance of Migration and Viking Age Mortuary Practice' by Mark A. Hall
This contribution explores an aspect of boat burials in the second half of the first millennium ad across Northern Europe, specifically boat burials that included equipment for board games (surviving variously as boards and playing pieces, playing…
Voluspa 1-4 Poetic Edda Recital in Old Norse with Throat Singing
Recital in Old Norse from the original Edda text, Voluspa (The Sibyls Prophecy or Divination of the Witch), a Heathen, Viking Age, Old Norse Poem on Creation, recorded in writing during the 12th Century A.D. (See below for English…
Poster of 1998 production of Wagner's Götterdämmerung
Götterdämmerung ('Twilight of the Gods' - a mistranslation of Ragnarök) is the final Opera of Wagner's 'Ring Cycle' based on the Old Norse myth cycle. This poster is from a 1998 production by the Hungarian State Opera (Magyar Állami Operaház).
Performance of the Battle of Maldon by Leofwin
A Viking Army under Olaf Trygvasson had been raiding the eastern and southern coast of England in the summer of 991AD unmolested until Byrhtnoth, with the men of Essex, cornered it on Northey Island, near Maldon in August. The two armies faced each…
Audio Clips from Jesse Byock's Viking Language Series (Hyperlink)
Sample audio clips on the website for the Viking Language Series by Jesse Byock. Includes a reading of the inscription on King Gorm's Rune stone in Jelling, and a reading from the Saga of the Greenlanders.
The Völsunga Saga [Audio]
"The Saga of the Volsungs" is one of the truly great Icelandic sagas. Composed sometime in the twelfth or thirteenth century by an unknown author, it is the story of Sigurd the dragon-slayer. Filled with elements of Norse mythology and great human…
Audio: Extract of a Performance of 'Grípisspá' (Grípir's Prophecy) by Hanna Marti and Mara Winter
Short clip of a performance of 'Grípisspá' (Grípir's Prophecy) by the ensemble Moirai (Hanna Marti vocals, and Mara Winter, flute and vocals). Moirai, founded in Reykjavik in 2015,specializes in the music of the Early and High…
Performance of extract from Atlakviða by Hanna Marti and Benjamin Bagby of Sequentia
A short extract from a performance of the Eddic poemAtlakviða (sts. 15, 16 and 18)by Hanna Marti and Benjamin Bagby of Sequentia, at the 'Old Norse Poetry in Performance' Conference in Oxford, Friday, 24 June organised byAnnemari Ferreira…
Audio: Hanna Marti and Mara Winter Performing the Eddic Poem 'Helreið Brynhildar'
A performance of the Eddic Poem 'Helreið Brynhildar' (Brynhild's Ride to Hel) by the ensemble Moirai (Hanna Marti vocals, and Mara Winter, flute and vocals). Moirai, founded in Reykjavik in 2015,specializes in the music of the Early and High…
MOIRAI - Blood treasure, woven fates - Trailer
This is a short video to introduce MOIRAI's latest concert project on the Old Norse poetic Edda. More information can be found here: http://www.hannamarti.com/moirai-en
Moirai Ensemble (website)
The website of Moirai, an ensemble founded in Reykjavik in 2015, which specializes in the music of the Early and High Middle Ages, and "focuses on the female figures in the Edda songs. The story of the cursed Rhinegold is told mostly from the…