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Detail of a runestone by the women's toilets in Arlanda Airport. "Brother."

Viking ships were clinker built, with the strakes overlapping and joined by clinch (or clinker) nails allowing for a degree of flexibility in the…

Detail of the runic inscription on the 1980 replica of one of the Gallehus horns (DR 12 / DK SJy60) in Nationalmuseet, København.

Detail shots showing the mast seat on the Gokstad ship.

Detail shots showing the oar holes on the Gokstad ship.

Well-known bronze pin with ornamentation in a form of a snake (or dragon) head.

This find is a part of permanent exhibition in Hedeby Viking…

Detail of the weaving on Havhingten's sail. For more information see…

Detail shot showing the carving at the stem of Saga Oseberg at the Tønsberg Viking Festival.

Detail of the stem ornament on the Oseberg Ship, showing the intricate carving.

Detail of the stern ornament on the Oseberg Ship, showing the intricate carving.

Detail of Yggdrasill from the Överhogdal tapestries, produced during the Viking Age and re-discovered in 1909 in Överhogdal Church.

A diagram showing how Ribe developed as a settlement between 705 and 865. Details about the exhibition can be found at http://www.ribesvikinger.dk/en/

A colourful and detailed diagram of the Norse Cosmos, produced by Wolfgang Werner and featured on the esoteric website www.impurismus.de

Institutet för språk og folkminnen has Lena Peterson's Nordiskt Runnamnslexikon available for pdf download or to buy as a physical book. The book is a…

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose
Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog

Online dictionary of Old Norse

A video short about rescuing a Viking captive.

Digital copies of the series "Sveriges runinskrifter", the standard corpus work for Swedish runic inscriptions.

Disc-on-bow brooch, gilt copper alloy and garnet. Gotland, Sweden, 500-700 AD. Photographed at the Ashmolean Museum. AN1909.28

Glass from the production of beads and mosaics lost or discarded at Ribe Marketplace. Details about the exhibition can be found at…

Viking Age artefacts from excavations in York, including beads, finger rings, pottery and whetstones on display in the temporary Jorvik: Home and…

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