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Performance: Hrafnagaldur Óðins (Guðrún Kristín Magnúsdóttir)

Hrafnagaldur Óðins is a late-medieval or early modern Icelandic Eddic-style poem, which was considered by early editors to be part of the Eddic…

Performance of the Battle of Maldon by Leofwin

A Viking Army under Olaf Trygvasson had been raiding the eastern and southern coast of England in the summer of 991AD unmolested until Byrhtnoth, with…

'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…

Möttuls Saga, the Saga of the Mantle

Möttuls Saga is a translation of an Old French poem into Old Norse. This article provides an irreverant summary of the saga.

Can you help us to identify these performers in Viking dress in Kalundborg, Denmark?

Two musicians playing as part of Kalundborg's Harbour Festival in the Kongens Togt series of events in Summer 2016 to commemorate Cnut's conquest of…

A reading from 'The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman'

Nancy Marie Brown tells the story of the lives of women in the Viking age

The Völsunga Saga [Audio]

"The Saga of the Volsungs" is one of the truly great Icelandic sagas. Composed sometime in the twelfth or thirteenth century by an unknown author, it…

Grettir Theatre-Play Trailer (English)

The Comedytheatre in the Westfjords of Iceland will perform in English the powerful play Grettir every Wednesday this summer in Isafjordur. Shows will…

Poster for Grettir theatreplay based on the Icelandic saga

Billed as 'A theatreplay based on one of the most famous Icelandic sagas', written and produced by Elfar Logi Hannesson for Comedytheatre. Poster seen…

Triquetra - Illuminating York 2013 - Clifford’s Tower (Hyperlink)

The history of three Viking kings (Harald Bluetooth, Sweyn Forkbeard, Cnut the Great) told using sound and video projection mapping as a Son et…

Voluspa 1-4 Poetic Edda Recital in Old Norse with Throat Singing

Recital in Old Norse from the original Edda text, Voluspa (The Sibyls Prophecy or Divination of the Witch), a Heathen, Viking Age, Old Norse Poem on…

Magic Sheet lecture 1

An introduction to Old Icelandic/Old Norse grammar via a tour of Alaric's Magic Sheet of Old Norse Inflections (available via…

Audio Clips from Jesse Byock's Viking Language Series (Hyperlink)

Sample audio clips on the website for the Viking Language Series by Jesse Byock. Includes a reading of the inscription on King Gorm's Rune stone in…

Blog Post about Light in the Dark Ages

Discussion of how metal fittings would have made their owners more noticeable in the dim light of a Viking Age house.

Reading of skaldic verse by David Baker and Orri Tomasson

Readings of skaldic verse produced for the Orkney Project. Orri Tomasson reads the Old Norse, and David Baker reads the translations of the following…