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22. Vikings / The European Prospect, 1000

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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…

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The Vikings and Their Outreach: From Buddhas to Butternuts - lecture by Russell Poole

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Dr. Russell Poole is one of Western's 2010 Distinguished University Professor Award recipients. This award acknowledges sustained excellence in scholarship over a career, taking into consideration the full breadth of academics including research,…

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Viking Society for Northern Research Web Publications

Digital copies of publications produced by the Viking Society for Northern Research, including 'Saga Book' vols. I–XXXVIII, 'A New Introduction to Old Norse', a number of significant texts in translation, and various other articles, essays, and…

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Christina von Nolcken - The Vikings and a Turbulent Anglo-Scandinavian World

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On August 14, 2007, Denmark apologized for her part in the ninth-century Viking…

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The Vikings by Ryan Reeves

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Ryan M. Reeves (PhD Cambridge) is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Twitter: https://twitter.com/RyanMReeves Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryreeves4/

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'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…

Tags: Academic Article, Archaeological Artefacts, Archaeology, Boardgames, Burial customs, Entertainment, Performances, Ship Burials, Tertiary Education

Course Syllabus: Religion and Mythology in the Viking Age

This is the syllabus for a course on pre-Christian religion/s in the Viking Age, which I taught in the spring of 2014. It was part of a two-semester 'valgfag' programme at Aarhus University titled "Viking Studies", so the students (drawn from a range…

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