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Makt og maktsentre i vikingtid og middelalder
Makt og maktsentre i vikingtid og middelalder: Maktsentre på Østlandet fra ca. 800 til 1200 e. Kr. i Snorre og arkeologiske kilder
av Even Ballangrud Andersen
Masteroppgave i historie
Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie…
av Even Ballangrud Andersen
Masteroppgave i historie
Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie…
The Shape of the Soul: The Viking Mind and the Individual
Professor Neil Price delivers the third of three lectures, September 27, 2012, focusing on the fundamental role that narrative, storytelling and dramatisation played in the mindset of the Viking Age (8th-11th centuries), occupying a crucial place not…
Life and Afterlife: Dealing with the Dead in the Viking Age
Professor Neil Price delivers the second of three lectures, September 26, 2012, focusing on the fundamental role that narrative, storytelling and dramatisation played in the mindset of the Viking Age (8th-11th centuries), occupying a crucial place…
The Children of Ash: Cosmology and the Viking Universe
Professor Neil Price delivers the first of three lectures, September 25, 2012, focusing on the fundamental role that narrative, storytelling and dramatisation played in the mindset of the Viking Age (8th-11th centuries), occupying a crucial place not…
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…
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…
On August 14, 2007, Denmark apologized for her part in the ninth-century Viking…
The Vikings and Their Outreach: From Buddhas to Butternuts - lecture by Russell Poole
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,…
The Vikings by Ryan Reeves
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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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…
The Vikings in Scotland and Ireland in the Ninth Century
Text of Donnchadh Ó Corráin's O'Donnell Lecture, delivered at the Taylorian Building, Oxford, on Ascension Day, 1997
Chronicon 2 (1998) 3: 1-45
ISSN 1393-5259
Chronicon 2 (1998) 3: 1-45
ISSN 1393-5259
'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…
Old Norse-Icelandic Grammar: A basic course
A short introduction to Old Norse-Icelandic grammar.
Raiders, Traders and Explorers: A History of the Viking Expansion
A series of items for a six week introductory course about the Vikings, including lecture slides, reading lists and notes about the course.
The Viking Age: History and Culture of the Medieval Scandinavian Expansion
The syllabus for a course about the Vikings at undergraduate level.
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…
Lecture Slides: Introduction to Old Norse (Language)
Slides from three lectures introducing undergraduate students to Old Norse, with the main points of grammar covered as well as exercises to accompany the explanations. Includes a passage from Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða for translation. Used in Old…
Reading list for essay question on Norse mythological material in Beowulf
Essay Title: ‘The incorporation of Norse mythological material in Beowulf is nothing more than a random assortment of half-remembered stories.’ Discuss.
Reading list for essay question on Thomas Gray's Norse sources
Essay Question: How does Thomas Gray adapt his sources (Baldrs draumar and Darraðarljóð) in ‘The Descent of Odin’ and ‘The Fatal Sisters’?
Reading list for essay question on J. R. R. Tolkien and Norse sources
Essay Question: Which aspects of Norse mythology are borrowed and adapted by J. R. R. Tolkien in the construction of Middle-earth?
Reading list for essay question on Joanne Harris and Norse sources
Essay Question: What motivates Joanne Harris’s employment of Norse mythology in Runemarks, Runelight, and The Gospel of Loki?