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The Stone ship or ship setting was an early burial custom, characteristically Scandinavian but also found in Northern Germany and the Baltic states.…

One of four early Viking-Age picture stones from Stora Hammars in Gotland, featuring scenes of battle, and imagery interpreted as having a mythical or…

A task sheet for students to help them analyse the structure of Bósa saga

Photographs of runic inscriptions and picture stones from the archives of the Swedish National Heritage Board

A comic featuring Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Vikings.

Stained glass window depicting the third Bishop of Trondheim, Eysteinn Erlendsson and the first bishop of Ornkey and Shetland, William the Old, who…

A medieval style dress in a shop in Tønsberg. It has a belt clasp with a stylised Oseberg ship on it.

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…

Excavations at the Brough of Deerness have found a high-status, Norse settlement.

Proclamation and Artwork produced for the 2016 Up Helly A', and on public display in Lerwick, Shetland. The proclamations typically poke fun at the…

The Vale of York Hoard was found in 2007, and was the largest Viking Age hoard found in England since the Cuerdale Hoard. It is on display at The…

The Vale of York hoard was discovered in 2007.

A helmet in the museum at Gamla Uppsala

A short history of the Viking Age and medieval period in Norway with exercises for pupils. These are supplements to the book 'Historie Vg2. Fra de…

Stones marking the rough outline of the Viking Age boat burial at Balladoole, Isle of Man, a double burial of a man and a woman. See also item #2783

A compendium of the material culture of Viking Age Britain

A short essay about the Viking Age town of Birka in Sweden

The syllabus for a course about the Vikings at undergraduate level.

The Viking Answer Lady is a popular website that began life as a series of articles for the newsletter of the Barony of Bjornsborg, a branch of the…

Harald hardrada (Haraldr harðráði in Old Norse) leads his army onto the field of battle. Reenactment at Stamford Bridge in 2013.

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