Browse Items (2474 total)
Informatiecentrum Vikingen op WieringenThe Viking information centre in Wieringen.
Incinerator on the Isle of Man, designed to evoke a Viking shipAn Incinerator at Richmond Hill, near Douglas, designed by architects Savage & Chadwick to reference the sails of Viking ships, and the Norse heritage…
In Our Time - The Norse GodsMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vikings’ myths. Thor’s huge hammer, the wailing Valkyrie, howling wolves and fierce elemental giants…
In Extremo song 'Merseburger Zaubersprüche'In Extremo song 'Merseburger Zaubersprüche' is included on the second bands album 'Verehrt und Angespien'. Second part of the song lyrics (after short…
In Extremo song 'Merseburger Zaubersprüche II'In Extremo song 'Merseburger Zaubersprüche II' is included on the third band album 'Sünder ohne Zügel'. Song lyrics is Second Merseburg Charm - magic…
Images of the eleventh- or twelfth-century Annaholty Bog ShoeImages of a leather shoe found in Annaholty Bog on the border of Co. Limerick Co. Tipperary and dating to the eleventh or twelfth century. It is a…
Image of Viking ships on the Sct. Catharinæ Brønd Fountain in RibeImage of Viking ships on this fountain designed by Anders Bundgaard, which depicts the development of the city of Ribe from its viking roots.
Image of Ansgar on the Sct. Catharinæ Brønd Fountain in RibeDepiction of Ansgar with his church on the fountain designed by Anders Bundgaard (801-65). Ansgar was a German missionary (later Archbishop of…
Image of a Viking in sand on AlderneyAn image of a viking in sand, complete with helmet (without horns!)
Illustration of Yggdrasill from AM 738 4toDetail from an illustration of Yggdrasil on fol. 43r of the 17th century Icelandic manuscript AM 738 4to (the Edda oblongata), housed in The…
Illustration of Yggdrasill by Lorenz FrølichPublished in Karl Gjellerup, Den ældre Eddas gudesange oversatte samt indledede og forklarede af Karl Gjellerup med tegninger af Lorenz Frølich…
Illustration of Yggdrasill by Friedrich Wilhelm HeineIllustration of 'The Ash Yggdrasill' by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine, printed in Wilhelm Wägner's Asgard and the Gods (1886)
Illustration of twelfth-century 'Smalls Reef' sword guardAn illustration of a sword-guard recovered by a diver near Smalls Reef near Skomer island in Wales, and dating to c. 1100-1125. It is decorated with…
Illustration of the Norse Cosmos by Finnur MagnússonAn illustration of the Norse cosmos at the close of Finnur Magnússon's 1825 Eddalæren og dens oprindelse - vol. 3 (p. 339). This image is…
Illustration of the Alþingi in session on a tourist information board in ÞingvellirIllustration by Gylfi Gislason as part of a larger tourist information board in the Þingvellir Rift Valley
Illustration of short-twigged (Norwegisn-Swedish) runesAn illustration of the typical forms of the so-called 'short-twigged' or Norwegian-Swedish runes.
Illustration of detail from bone trial piece, WaterfordThis intricately decorated item, discovered in an excavation in Waterford City, was a trial piece, perhaps intended to be made into a comb. It is…
Illustration of a brooch from the Lilleberge burialAn illustration of the Lilleberge Brooch. The burial mound was excavated in the late nineteenth century, but the brooch only came to light in 2014…
IHTA: Towns of Viking OriginThe Irish Historic Towns Atlas is now online with a series of pages on towns of Viking origin.
Iduns gate, OsloIdun was the goddess who tended the golden apples that kept the gods young.