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Ancient Music of Scandinavia - European Music Archaeology Project (EMAP) Volume 2. This is a video related to the CD Ice and Longboats, volume 2 of a…

A magnet from a shop in Heimaey, depicting a valkyrie. Original source for this design may be the Öland Silver 'Valkyrie' Pendant…

The Icelandic horse is a breed of horse from Iceland that developed from horses taken to Iceland by the original Viking settlers. It is small, often…

The Icelandic Saga Map project has created an interactive map of the Icelandic sagas, linking places on the map to events in the sagas.

The Icelandic sagas with modern Icelandic spelling

T-Shirt from a tourist shop in Iceland with a depiction of a runes and interlace artwork. Many souvenirs in Iceland play on the Viking heritage of the…

T-Shirt from a tourist shop in Iceland with a depiction of a viking in relief. Unusually for the tourist industry, this Viking has no horns on their…

T-Shirt from a tourist shop in Iceland featuring a Viking drinking from a horned beer-helmet. This playful t-shirt combines two of the most common…

T-Shirt from a tourist shop in Iceland with a depiction of a Viking worrier.

T-Shirt from a tourist shop in Iceland with a depiction of a stylised dragon head from the prow of a Viking ship. If you know the original or…

T-Shirt advertising Egils Brewery, depicting a Viking drinking from a horn with the caption 'Choice of Vikings'. Viking imagery is used widely in the…

T-Shirt from an Icelanic Tourist shop depicting a Viking ship.

The company website for Íslensk hollusta refers to the fact that Icelanders used Black Salt until the 15th Century, produced from burning seaweed. It…

Idun. ‘Mild and soft.’ From the Asgaard cheese range ‘exclusive to Aldi’. On sale in Denmark (and presumably other countries).

Idun was the goddess who tended the golden apples that kept the gods young.

The Irish Historic Towns Atlas is now online with a series of pages on towns of Viking origin.

An illustration of the Lilleberge Brooch. The burial mound was excavated in the late nineteenth century, but the brooch only came to light in 2014…

This intricately decorated item, discovered in an excavation in Waterford City, was a trial piece, perhaps intended to be made into a comb. It is…

An illustration of the typical forms of the so-called 'short-twigged' or Norwegian-Swedish runes.

Illustration by Gylfi Gislason as part of a larger tourist information board in the Þingvellir Rift Valley

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