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Eleanor Parker discusses the Old English poem 'The Battle of Maldon'. The poem describes a battle that is also recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,…

A blog post about an immigrant's first experience of St Olaf's Day in Norway

The Medieval Nordic Legal Dictionary is a 3-year project aimed at producing a Nordic-English lexicon of the legal terminology found in medieval…

Author Patricia Bracewell describes her day out to visit the location where History Channel's 'Vikings' is filmed.

Emily Lethbridge's blog of how she travelled around Iceland reading the sagas at the locations where they took place.

A blog about the Viking Age in Norway that was created as part of a school project

A short article discussing the origins of the gene that controls red hair and relating it to the Vikings.

A blog designed to introduce the Vikings to children

Tamara's discussion of the 'Vikings' TV series and the directions it will be taking.

A discussion about two-handed (Dane) axes, looking at typologies, and the evidence for their use.

A blog about re-enactment of the Viking Age

A blog post about Norse and Danish settlement in Cork

A blog by Dr Dayanna Knight, Viking archaeologist and anthropologist, and artist.

A blog describing research into Viking-Age metalwork by Jane Kershaw

A blog about Viking re-enactment in Norway by Ingrid Galadriel of Trondheim Vikinglag.

A blog post discussing the disappearance of Kaupang i Skiringssal.

A blog post about women in the Viking Age and what the Oseberg ship burial means for our understanding of their levels of power and agency.

Episode 08 of Rory McGrath's comical look at some of the nastier moments in British History. This one begins with the first raid of THE VIKINGS in…

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

A Romanian pizza restaurant using a Viking logo to promote itself.

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