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News: Viking-themed shop enjoys Game of Thrones boostShort video from the BBC News website (in their My Shop series) about a Viking-themed shop in London.
In Our Time - The Norse GodsMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vikings’ myths. Thor’s huge hammer, the wailing Valkyrie, howling wolves and fierce elemental giants…
Invasion: Vikings and Normans podcastPodcast on the BBC website in the series 'The Matter of the North' looking at the impact of the Vikings and Norman invasions on the North of England.…
News: Galloway Viking treasure pot's contents revealed after more than 1,000 yearsConservators have released images of the contents of a Carolingian cup that formed part of the Galloway Hoard.
Yggdrasill Journal CoverA leather journal cover with an image of Yggdrasill.
Beanie Hat in Shetland featuring a Viking ShipHat in a souvenir shop in Lerwick, Shetland, featuring a Viking ship, and produced by Beechfield Original Headwear
News: Viking treasure hoard dating back almost a thousand years unearthed near CaernarfonThe Llandwrog hoard was found in March 2015. It comprises silver coins and ingots, and is thought to have been buried between 1020 and 1030. Eight of…
Viking Vampires teaser, American tourists.Teaser for the film Viking Vampires.
Cast
Eirik Blodtann: John-Egil Hope
Sigurd: Knut Roald Skitskjegg Wake
Magnus: Tom Eddie Borge
American…
The Krogsta Rune Stone (U1125)The Krogsta rune stone dates from the 6th Century, and is famous for its depiction of a human figure as well as being the only older futhark rune…
The Krogsta Rune Stone (U1125) - Rear / Side BThe Krogsta rune stone dates from the 6th Century, and is famous for its depiction of a human figure as well as being the only older futhark rune…
The Saga Of BiornStory
Biôrn, an old Viking, is determined to reach Valhalla, the warrior's afterlife full of excessive drinking and debauchery. To gain entry he has…
Conference Presentation: Bergdís Þrastardóttir, ‘ The PhD in the World of Viking Entrepreneurship’Bergdís Þrastardóttir (Valkyrja adventures), ‘ The PhD in the World of Viking Entrepreneurship’. Chaired by Christina Lee. Presentation at the…
Store norske leksikon - VikingtidenAn online entry in Store norske leksikon for the Viking Age in Norway
Tjängvide (I) Picture Stone from GotlandTjängvide I (G 110) dates from c.700-800 AD and is now on display at Statens historiska museum in Stockholm. It is one of several Gotlandic…
Finds from a Priestess' GraveFinds from a vǫlva's grave in Köpingsvik, Öland. There is an 82 cm long wand of iron with bronze details and a unique model of a house on the top.…
Vikingen (Photo of Icelander in Viking costume from 1930)"Vikingen" - Isländsk man i vikingadräkt vid Ármannsfell, Þingvellir, Island
("The Viking" - Icelandic man in Viking costume at Ármann Fell,…
Baite Viking Ship sculpture on Essex Quay/Wood Quay, DublinMetal sculpture 'Baite Viking Ship' evoking a beached Viking vessel, by artist Betty Newman-Maguire. Located near to the controversial Dublin City…
Marvel Comics - Last of the VikingsA 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 Stone ships (Skeppssättning)(Nordic bronze age - Viking age)The Stone ship or ship setting was an early burial custom, characteristically Scandinavian but also found in Northern Germany and the Baltic states.…
King Cnut and the Conquest of EnglandThis website is a 'virtual exhibition', created as a collaboration between staff and students at UCL, Birkbeck College, and the University of Oxford.…