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A collection of videos about processing timber for a Viking ship.
A blog post about a symposium on historical reconstructions of ships.
Vikings: Bataviawerf, Oseberg Vikingship
Viking Roses use a longship as their logo with a Danish flag. They are marketed as 'True Vikings: enduring, vigorous, healthy and CHARMING'. The brand…
SHIELDMAIDEN is a short animation film about VIKINGS! Follow the adventures of the warrior girl Rota and her companions in their travels hrough the…
A video short about rescuing a Viking captive.
Viking-age keys on display at the Swedish History Museum, Stockholm.
Large Viking-age key on display at the Swedish History Museum, Stockholm.
Viking-age keys on display at the Swedish History Museum, Stockholm.
Viking-age key on display at the Swedish History Museum, Stockholm. Found in grave of "princess of Birka" (ca. 8th-10th century).
This web page includes printable boards for many of the variants of hnefatafl, the Vikings' board game.
Grágás is the Icelandic law code that exists in several editions. This is the edition found in Codex Regius.
Bibliographic reference for most…
The Viking warship Skuldelev 3 in 29.4 meters long, and the largest of the ships scuttled in the Roskilde Fjord. It dates to to c. 1042 and is built…
Photo by Flickr userMandiasof the Ladby Viking ship burial. The museum is built around the excavated Viking ship in its original location. For more…
'Princess of Birka' display at Swedish History Museum, Stockholm
Viking-Age women's clothing on display at the Swedish History Museum, Stockholm.
A review of Jesch, J., 1991 'Women in the Viking Age' (Woodbridge: Boydell) written by Carolyne Larrington and published in Alvismal. The link is to a…
A review of Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, 2013 'Women in Old Norse Literature: Bodies, Words, and Power.' The New Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave…
The Ladby burial mound, containing a high-status ship burial - the only one so far discovered in Denmark. The remains of the Ladby ship are preserved…
A historical photo of the partly-excavated Gokstad ship in Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway in the 1880s. From the Universitetsmuseens fotoportal
An aerial photograph taken in 1962, showing the barrier in the Roskilde Fjord constructed to excavate the five Skuldelev ships. These ships are now on…
