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Insignia of North High School, Denver, CO
The shoulder-sleeve insignia of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) from this high-schoolin Denver, CO. It features "a Viking War club surmounted by a Viking helmet" according to the official website.
Insignia of North Salem High School, Salem, Oregon
The shoulder-sleeve and shoulder loop insignia of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) from this high-school in Salem, Oregon. They feature a viking head with red beard and hair and a horned helmet and a shield with a viking ship in the…
Insignia of Northeast High School, Pride, LA
The shoulder-sleeve and shoulder loop insignia of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) from this high-school in Pride, LA. They feature a Viking with horned helmet and red beard. According to the official website, "The Viking is the school's…
Insignia of Northwest High School, Clarksville, TN
The shoulder-sleeve and shoulder loop insignia of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) from this high-school in Clarksville, TN. They feature a viking with beard and horned helmet, and a shield with crossed axes respectively. According to…
Insignia of Spartanburg High School, Spartanburg, SC
The shoulder-sleeve and shoulder loop insignia of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) from this high-school in Spartanburg, SC. They both feature a stylised viking bust with horned helmet, braids and mustache. According to the official…
Insignia of the United States Element of the Allied Forces Northwest Europe
Distinctive Unit Insignia of the US Element of the Allied Forces Northwest Europe (NATO), featuring a Viking ship. According to the official website, "The Viking ship alludes to the heritage of Northwestern Europe while signifying military…
Insignia of the US 47th Infantry Division
The insignia of the 47th Infantry Division, whose units come from the states of Minnesota and North Dakota (with high levels of Scandinavian immigration). The insignia features a horned helmet, and a shield of Thor, apparently referring to the Marvel…
Insignia of the US 86th Engineer Battalion
The distinctive unit insignia of the 86th US Engineer Battalion, featuring a Viking ship under sail. According to the official website, "the Viking ship is symbolic of the bridge-building activities of the organization, such ships having first been…
Insignia of Valley High School, Las Vegas, NV
The shoulder-sleeve and shoulder loop insignia of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) from this high-school in Las Vegas, NV. Featuring a Viking with horned helmet, braids and mustache. According to the official website "The Viking is the…
Insignia of Westhill High School, Stamford, CT
The shoulder-sleeve and shoulder loop insignia of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) from this high-school in Westhill, Stamford, CT. They feature a viking head with winged helmet and a mask helmet with horns respectively. According to…
Insignia of William M. Raines High school, Jacksonville, Florida
The shoulder-sleeve and shoulder loop insignia of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) fromthis high-school in Jacksonville, Florida, features a Viking bust with beard and horned helmet and Viking ship under sail respectively. According to…
Logo of Friends of the Viking Ship
The logo of 'Friends of the Viking Ship' which aims to "to facilitate the preservation of the 1893 Viking Ship as an important artifact from the Columbian Exposition, and to advocate its public display in a permanent museum setting with adequate…
Marvel Comics - Last of the Vikings
A band of Vikings were exiled from Norway 1248. They sailed west and found an uninhabited island where the lived for many centuries until a plague hit the island in 1948. They left the island to escape the plague and found their way to America, which…
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…
News: Time running short to save Viking ship in Illinois
A news article about the threat to a replica Viking ship in Good Templar Park, Geneva, Illinois
Norse Corp threat intelligence network
Norse Corp describes itself as "the world's largest dedicated threat intelligence network". The link to the Vikings and the use of a bind-rune as a logo may be linked to the company ethos: "We believe in taking the hits so our customers don’t have…
Ragnar: Minnesota Vikings Mascot
The website of Ragnar, former mascot of the Minnesota Vikings.
Short documentary about the 'Viking' reconstructed ship and its voyage to America
Documentary about the replica of the Gokstad ship that crossed the Atlantic in the late nineteenth century. For more information, see http://www.vikingship.us/bps_documentary.htm
Shoulder Loop Insignia for University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
The shoulder-sleeve insignia of Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps (SROTC) from the University of Idaho, Moscow, ID. It features a cartoon Viking face with beard and winged helmet.
The Newport Tower
This stone tower in Touro Park on Rhode Island has been thought to be a Viking construction. This is not the case, and the arguments for it have been shown to be wrong in every regard. The earliest references to it describe it as a stone windmill,…