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Nancy Marie Brown takes us back to medieval Iceland and introduces us to perhaps the greatest storyteller of the period, Snorri Sturluson. Part of the…

The logo of this steel storage company in the Port of Tórshavn appears to be based on the sail of a Viking Ship

A blog post about the hymn for St Olav written in 1896 by Norwegian poet and playwright Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.

The year is 872, and many of the separate kingdoms of what we now know as England have fallen to the invading Danes, leaving the great kingdom of…

A description of building a Viking house based on the archaeological evidence from Dublin.

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This video is about Jesse Byock's interdisciplinary research in Iceland. The material discuss the use of sagas, history and…

The website for the Melting Pot project which proposes to use cutting-edge techniques to study how food and cooking were used to forge social…

This website provides a general synthesis of data about early medieval combs, including Viking and Viking Age combs.

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The Viking museum at Haithabu (Hedeby)

The Culture Centre at Stiklestad was built to mark commemorate the Battle of Stiklestad which is usually taken to mark the coming of Christianity to…

Sven Nordin as Olaf II in The Saint Olav Drama at Stiklestad, Norway

From Wikipedia: "The Banner Saga is a Viking-themed tactical role-playing video game developed by Stoic... The game takes place in a Viking…

Storynory is a website with audio stories for children, including stories about the Norse gods, such as this one about Loki. The language of the site…

The article discusses how Vikings used their travel chests as rowing seats when voyaging, and considers whether modern travellers and travel companies…

Sunnmøre Museum in Ålesund includes some replica Viking ships.

This blot was held at the ancient pagan burial mounds of Uppsala and was organised by Samfundet Forn Sed Sverige.…

A news article about the threat to a replica Viking ship in Good Templar Park, Geneva, Illinois

Four boat burials and several other burials from the period immediately before the Viking Age were found after a chance metal detector find in…

A lesson plan using the film 'Northmen: A Viking Saga' as the basis for a series of lessons and exercises about the Vikings.

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