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Conference Presentation: Natalie McCaul, ‘Touring the Vikings’
Natalie McCaul (Yorkshire Museum), ‘Touring the Vikings’. Chaired by John Sheehan. Presentation at the IRC-Funded Conference ''Rediscovering the Vikings', UCC, 25 Nov. 2016.
Commercial: Thor's Tipi Bar
Thor's Tipi Bar is a pop-up Christmas bar that can be found in Sheffield, York and Leeds. It advertises itself as a friendly Viking bar where little Vikings are welcome, and uses the tagline 'Drink Feast Conquer Repeat'.
Lancaster City Museum
Lancaster City Museum holds a collection of various Viking Age finds including combs and spearheads, as well as other objects found at Heysham.
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery
The archaeological collection at Tullie House contains the remains of eight pagan inhumations and a selection of Viking Age stray finds.
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery contains a selection of artefacts from the early medieval period in its Anglo-Saxon and Viking gallery, including the remains of Viking oval brooches from Santon Downham
Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Derby Museum contains remains of a Viking man, his sword and other items from teh burial at Repton Church, as well as an early medieval sculpture collection.
The Last Kingdom | Series Trailer
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 Wessex standing alone and defiant under the command of King Alfred.
Against this turbulent backdrop…
Against this turbulent backdrop…
Logo of Rover Company
Rover started as a bike manufacturer in 1878 and began manufacturing cars in 1904 until 2005. The Viking ship logo appears on Rover cars from 1929 onwards.
Monty Python - Spam (featuring Vikings!)
The origin of SPAM.
A clip from Monty Python's Flying Circus involving spam-loving vikings with horned helmets!
A clip from Monty Python's Flying Circus involving spam-loving vikings with horned helmets!
The Pitney Brooch
From British Museum Website:
"Dished gilt copper-alloy disc brooch, Urnes style. Within a scalloped border, the convex surface of the circular brooch bears an openwork design of a coiled, ribbon animal in combat with a snake. The head has a…
"Dished gilt copper-alloy disc brooch, Urnes style. Within a scalloped border, the convex surface of the circular brooch bears an openwork design of a coiled, ribbon animal in combat with a snake. The head has a…
Runic Code
A pseudo-runic code in Leeds is part of a mystery event where participants have to solve the clues
Edition and Translation: Liðsmannaflokkr ('The Soldier’s Song'), ed. and trans. Richard North
An edition and translation of the (anonymous?) skaldic poemLiðsmannaflokkr ('The Soldier’s Song')by Richard North, detailing the capture of London by Earl Thorkell the Tall andCnut in 1016. The edition and translation is excerpted fromThe…
Edition and Translation: Liðsmannaflokkr ('The Soldier’s Song'), ed. and trans. Richard North
An edition and translation of the (anonymous?) skaldic poemLiðsmannaflokkr ('The Soldier’s Song')by Richard North, detailing the capture of London by Earl Thorkell the Tall andCnut in 1016. The edition and translation is excerpted fromThe…
Sievert-Siefred-Cnut coin (York Mint) in the Ashmolean Museum
Sievert-Siefred-Cnut group coin, Northumbria (York Mint). 895-902. HCR7871 & HCR7920
St Edmund Memorial Coinage in the Ashmolean Museum
Saint Edmund Memorial Coinage, produced in East Anglia 896-910 by the East-Anglian Vikings, and imitating coins produced during Edmund's reign. HCR7805 and HCR7803
Coin of Guthrum in the Ashmolean Museum
Coin of Guthrum (christened Æthelstan II) from East Anglia, 880-890.
Viking Imitations of King Alfred Coins in the Ashmolean Museum
Viking imitations of King Alfred the Great coins, from around 880. HCR7915 and HCR7916
Silver bars, wires and ingots from White Horse Road, London, in the Ashmolean Museum
Bars, wires and ingots (silver bullion), 800-900. White Horse Road in London. AN1909.556
Gold ring from Ixworth in the Ashmolean Museum
Anglo-Scandinavian gold ring from Ixworth in Suffolk. 900-1050.
Silver ring from Thetford in the Ashmolean Museum
Anglo-Scandinavian silver finger ring from Thetford, Norfolk. 900-1050.