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Varangian Guardsmen from the Skylitzes Manuscript

One section of the Skylitzes manuscript illustrates how the Varangian Guard, an elite mercenary unit mainly consisting of Scandinavians in Byzantine…

Handout: The Two Main Manuscripts of the Poetic Edda

A handout about the two main manuscripts that provide the texts of the Poetic Edda.

Handout: Types of Abbreviations in Old Norse Manuscripts

A handout discussing the various abbreviations used in Old Norse manuscripts.

Medieval Animal Data-Network

The international Medieval Animal Data-Network (MAD) was founded in 2005 at the Department of Medieval Studies at Central European University…

Menota - Medieval Nordic Text Archive

Menota is a network of archives, libraries and research departments working with medieval texts and manuscript facsimilies. The website links to…

Photo of Samling af de oldgamle runer (Add 246 fol. V)

Table containing various rune forms. Today at the National Library in Copenhagen.

Project: Stories for all time: The Icelandic fornaldarsögur

Stories for all time is a research project based at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Nordic research (Nordisk Forskningsinstitut). It aims…

Photo of the York Gospels Manuscript

Description taken from display in the Undercroft at York Minster: "The York Gospels was probably made by Anglo-Saxon monks at Canterbury around 1020…

Historical Manuscripts Repository at the National and University Library of Iceland

Repository for catalogues and digital description of manuscripts including Icelandic sagas

Photograph of Icelandic saga manuscript

Photographs from Landnámssýningin Reykjavík 871±2 - The Settlement Exhibition in Iceland

Pre-Christian Religions of the North: Sources Database

Pre-Christian Religions of the North is an international project to document the mythology and religious practices of early Scandinavia and Germanic…