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The Viking Village is a living history museum. It is open to tourists in the summer and is used as a school activities centre the rest of the year.…
Set in AD 991 at the mouth of the river Panta, the Earl Byrhtnoth deals battle to Viking raiders. Unfortunately the epic poem is a fragment; the…
The Battle of Stamford Bridge produced in LEGO
A television programme where a team of ordinary people takes command of the Anglo-Saxon army against the Norwegian army at Stamford Bridge in 1066
Gordarike in Hallingdal has traces of Viking Age and medieval history. You can visit Gol stave church, King Hadding's grave mound and learn about the…
For 39 Years The Danish and now Viking Reenactors, for the whole world, meet to be Vikings for a Week. They have magnificent glorious battles, eat,…
The shoulder-sleeve insignia of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) from this high-schoolin Denver, CO. It features "a Viking War club…
Norwegian researchers have finally been able to open the tomb of descendants of the Viking leader Hrólfr (Rollo). They plan to find out if Rollo was…
A copy of a Viking-Age 'ear-scoop' found in excavations at Birka, Sweden. The replica can be purchased on the Viking Shield websitehere
Article in the Independent newspaper discussing the find of a tenth-century crucifix in Denmark (the Aunslev Cross) which is very similar to one found…
A silver crucifix from Björkö in Sweden discovered in the late nineteenth century and housed in The Swedish History Museum (Historiska).…
Borre Vikinglag is a group of Viking reenactors in Vestfold, Norway.
Borrefylkingen is a reenactment group in Vestfold, Norway. The group focuses on Viking-Age warfare.
This beautiful ear scoop was discovered in excavations on the island of Birka (Björkö) in the late nineteenth century. It features a figure…
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…
Aker i Viken is a small living history group based in Oslo that focuses on Viking-Age handicrafts.
This amber cat was found at Birka in Sweden. It is about 3cm long and looks like a sitting cat.
This replica of the Jelling II stone is sold on the Viking Shield website here, either painted or unpainted.
A bronze ear scoop (c. 800-1099) from Birka discovered in excavations on the island of Birka (Björkö) in the late nineteenth century. For…
Iron Tides is a Viking-based game combining survival, tactics and resource management. Players command a band of Vikings sailing through stormy seas…
