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Viking-age key on display at the Swedish History Museum, Stockholm.
Large Viking-age key on display at the Swedish History Museum, Stockholm.
Viking Denmark
Viking Denmark is a website that appears to be directing tourists to Viking-related sites that they can visit in Denmark, while also providing some background to those sites.
Viking Beads in the National Museum of Ireland
These photographs show a selection of beads on display in the museum in Dublin.
Viking Age shield from Gokstad
A preserved wooden shield with boss from the Gokstad burial.
Viking Age beads
Viking age glass beads displayed among cremated bones
View of the Gokstad Ship Showing the Steering Oar
A view from the stern of the Gokstad ship, showing the steering oar in place.
Varangian Guardsmen from the Skylitzes Manuscript
One section of the Skylitzes manuscript illustrates how the Varangian Guard, an elite mercenary unit mainly consisting of Scandinavians in Byzantine service, dealt with the death of one of their number. The deceased had attempted to rape a woman, so…
Valkyrie figure from Tjørnehøj
A silver gilt Valkyrie or shieldmaiden figure from Tjørnehøj in Denmark.
Urnes-Style Brooch from Hedeby
Bronze Urnes-style brooch with an ornament in a form of a snake (or a dragon).
This find is a part of permanent exhibition in Hedeby Viking Museum / Wikinger Museum Haithabu.
This find is a part of permanent exhibition in Hedeby Viking Museum / Wikinger Museum Haithabu.
Two Axes from the Oseberg Ship Burial
Two plain axes for general work.
Tweezers
Tweezers were part of every Viking's basic toilet articles.
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery
The archaeological collection at Tullie House contains the remains of eight pagan inhumations and a selection of Viking Age stray finds.
Translation of Hamðismál by Josefina Troncoso
A translation of Hamðismál by Josefina Troncoso (@kriemhildsrache on Twitter), a 3rd year English student at Durham University. Hamðismál is a heroic poem from the Poetic Edda that finishes the cycle about Guðrun and Sigurðr.
Tools for Textile Production from the Oseberg Burial
Various tools for textile production, including fragments of woven baskets, wooden bowls, balls of yarn, tablets for weaving, beech wood needles, a slate sharpening stone, a piece of quartz, and pieces of beeswax.
Tools for Textile Production from the Oseberg Burial
A wooden yarn winder made of beech, wooden spindles from drop spindles, a spindle whorl, and fragments of yarn found in the burial.
Time Warp Trio Lesson Plan to accompany the book
The lesson plan was designed to supplement the reading of the book, "Viking It and Liking It" by Jon Scieszka, which is part of a series of books called Time Warp Trio. This was then turned into a television series. Instead of playing Viking…
Thor's hammer mould from Hedeby
Soapstone Thor's hammer mould has been found in trade emporium in Hedeby / Haithabu.
This find is a part of permanent exhibition in Hedeby Viking Museum / Wikinger Museum Haithabu.
This find is a part of permanent exhibition in Hedeby Viking Museum / Wikinger Museum Haithabu.
The Viking Age: History and Culture of the Medieval Scandinavian Expansion
The syllabus for a course about the Vikings at undergraduate level.
The Tune Ship
The Tune ship has not survived as well as the Gokstad and Oseberg ships, with which it shares the Vikingskipshuset. However, it appears to have been a faster, sea-going vessel that could have outsailed both. It is not a cargo ship, because it does…
The Swedish National Heritage Board's Flickr set of runic inscriptions and picture stones
Photographs of runic inscriptions and picture stones from the archives of the Swedish National Heritage Board