Wednesday, 5 February 2025

Strange carvings at Norwegian grave site reveal what language was like before Vikings

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  Archaeologists have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters, revealing what the Norse lan...

Earliest Known Rune-Stone Discovered in Norway

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  Archaeologists in Norway have pieced together fragments of what is now the world’s earliest known rune-stone, dating back to as early as 5...
Wednesday, 11 December 2024

What Do Vikings Mean to You? New Global Survey Seeks Answers

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  The University of Oslo’s Museum of Cultural History has launched a global study to uncover how people around the world perceive Viking war...

Who Was the Man in the Well?

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  “Remarkable historical find at Sverresborg. Skeleton at the bottom of the old well. Could it be the Baglers’ victim, thrown into the well ...
Wednesday, 4 December 2024

Book review: Muslims on the Volga during the Viking Age

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  A compilation of essays may not necessarily be your first choice when you reach for a book on a library shelf or conduct a quick search on...

Archeologists share new findings from the Viking graves at Tvååker, Sweden

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  The Viking burial ground at Tvååker revealed 139 graves, including ship-formed stone settings and a ship-formed mound. Photo: Arkeologerna...
Sunday, 1 December 2024

Rare Viking-age treasure begins international tour

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  The Galloway hoard is set to be on display in Adelaide in Australia next year One of the UK's most important archaeological finds this...

140-year-old message in a bottle found in Viking burial mound in Norway

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  Archaeologists excavated the Myklebust ship mound and found a 140-year-old message in a bottle left by the site’s discoverer, photos show....
Monday, 28 October 2024

Portage: Will archeologists find proof of Viking ship-hauling in Scotland?

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  When, in season four of the hit television series Vikings, Ragnar Lothbrok exhorts his fellow Norsemen to pull their ships out of the wate...

Gjellestad Viking ship in danger of disappearing

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  Sindre Martinsen-Evje, the mayor of Østfold County Municipality in Norway, has called for urgent action to help preserve the Gjellestad Vi...
Sunday, 27 October 2024

That 800-Year-Old Corpse in the Well? Early Biological Warfare

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  The Well Man was little more than a myth until 1938, when archaeologists excavated an abandoned well in the ruins of Sverresborg, outside ...
Monday, 21 October 2024

What archaeologists are learning from the discovery of 50 extremely rare Viking skulls

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Skeletons and skulls sit in graves at an excavation site of a 10th century Viking burial ground in Aasum, Denmark (Copyright 2024 The Associ...
Monday, 30 September 2024

Archaeologists Reveal Viking Treasure Left Buried for 1,000 Years: 'Unique'

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The Viking treasure discovered in Årdal, Norway. The hoard consists of silver bracelets that are thought to be more than 1,000 years old. Vo...
Sunday, 29 September 2024

Remote Ancient Mountain Shelter Used by Viking Age Travelers Found

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A lake in Hardangervidda National Park, Norway. The shelter used during the Viking Age was found in the Hardanger Plateau, much of which is ...
Saturday, 28 September 2024

Danish archaeologists unearth 50 Viking skeletons

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The excavation of a large Viking-era burial site in Denmark has unearthed 50 unusually well-preserved skeletons that archaeologists expect w...
Sunday, 11 August 2024

L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America

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In the 1960s, Anne and Helge Ingstad discovered an 11th-century Viking settlement in L’Anse aux Meadows, Canada, proving that the Vikings ma...
Tuesday, 25 June 2024

A Massive Viking Ship That May Have Been Part Of A Royal Burial Has Been Discovered At Norway’s Jarlsberg Manor

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The flat fields surrounding Jarlsberg Manor contain numerous boat burials Museum of Cultural History / University of Oslo In 2018, a metal d...
Wednesday, 5 June 2024

Viking sword with 'very rare' inscription discovered on family farm in Norway

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A farmer in Norway's southwestern Rogaland district found the clay-encrusted remains of the Viking Age sword in a field he was clearing....
Tuesday, 9 April 2024

Trove Of Coins Dating Back To The 1100s Found On Visingsö, Sweden

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  A large trove of coins dating back to the formation of Sweden in the 1100s has been discovered at Brahe Church on Visingsö, the island wit...

Mystery Of The Haraldskærkvinnan (Haraldskærwoman) – Bog Body Of A Viking Queen?

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Scientists have long tried to unravel the mystery of the bog body today known as Haraldskærkvinnan (Haraldskærwoman). With the help of histo...

Vikings May Have Used Body Modification as a ‘Sign of Identification’

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Examples of artificially altered bones belonging to island-dwelling Vikings may be examples of purposeful body modifications, according to a...
Sunday, 7 April 2024

Byzantium and the early Rus’, with Monica White

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A conversation with Monica White about the earliest contacts between Constantinople and the first Rus’-Varangian raiders, traders, and merce...
Tuesday, 2 April 2024

'Extraordinary' Viking combs reveal Ipswich's medieval importance

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Most of the combs were made from red deer antler, although some were made from bone An unearthed collection of Viking combs is "extraor...
Thursday, 28 March 2024

Why Berserkers Were Some Of History’s Most Feared Warriors Viking berserkers existed as mercenaries for hundreds of years during the Scandinavian Middle Ages, traveling in bands to fight wherever they could get paid. But they also worshiped Odin and were associated with mythological shapeshifters. And eventually, Norse berserkers became so fearsome that they were entirely outlawed by the 11th century. Read the rest of this article...

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Viking berserkers existed as mercenaries for hundreds of years during the Scandinavian Middle Ages, traveling in bands to fight wherever the...
Wednesday, 20 March 2024

Intriguing Skull Modifications Discovered in Viking Women

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A recent study delves into the discovery of three women from Viking-Age Gotland who underwent skull elongation. This investigation sheds lig...
Monday, 4 March 2024

Magnet fisherman pulls a 1,200-year-old Viking sword out of a river

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Trevor Penny found a Viking sword while magnet fishing in Oxfordshire (Picture: Trevor Penny/Triangle News) A magnet fisherman was shocked t...
Thursday, 29 February 2024

7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World

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Science loves the Vikings. NASA’s 1970s mission to Mars paid homage to the Vikings, and Bluetooth wireless technology takes its name from th...
Wednesday, 28 February 2024

Kyivan Rus: The First East Slavic State

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Long before Russia or Ukraine existed, there was Kyivan Rus. Centuries before Russia or Ukraine raised arms against each other, Scandinavian...
Tuesday, 27 February 2024

The Vinland Map: How a Mysterious Forgery Fooled Experts for Decades

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The Vinland Map courted controversy from the moment its discovery was announced. / Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale Universit...

A 2,000-Year-Old Rune-Inscribed Knife Sheds Light on Denmark’s Past

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The knife engraved with runes believed to be Denmark's oldest. Photo: Rógvi N. Johansen, Museum Odense. Archaeologists from the Museum O...

Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring

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Courtesy National Museum of Denmark.   The Merovingian line ruled the Franks from the middle of the fifth century until 751. The Merovingian...

Gold Ring Possibly Linked to Royal Family Discovered by Metal Detectorist

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Lars Nielsen was casually using his metal detector while exploring the Emmerlev area in Denmark when he made quite the surprising discovery:...
Tuesday, 20 February 2024

Rare Merovingian gold ring found in Jutland

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A metal detectorist has discovered a rare Merovingian gold ring dating to 500-600 A.D. in Emmerlev, Southwest Jutland, Denmark. The ring is ...
Monday, 19 February 2024

Possible Viking-Age Marketplace Found in Norway

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STAVANGER, NORWAY—According to a statement released by the University of Stavanger, a ground-penetrating radar survey conducted on Klosterøy...

New Medieval Books: Beowulf and the North Before the Vikings

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Beowulf and the North Before the Vikings By Tom Shippey Arc Humanities Press ISBN: 9781802700138 How much history is there in the story of B...
Thursday, 15 February 2024

Vikings and their impact in Britain examined in new set of stamps issued by Royal Mail

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The impact the Vikings had on Britain is being examined in a new set of stamps issued by Royal Mail.  The eight stamps feature Viking artefa...
Thursday, 8 February 2024

Traces of Saxon town found beneath London’s National Gallery

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 Archaeologists from Archaeology South-East have uncovered traces of the Saxon town of Lundenwic beneath the National Gallery in London. Fol...
Monday, 5 February 2024

Ship burial discovered in Norway predates Viking Age

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A burial mound explored last June in Norway holds the remains of a ship that predates the Viking age. Archaeologists believe this is Scandin...
Saturday, 3 February 2024

10 Facts About L’Anse aux Meadows, North America’s Only Viking Ruins

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Recreated Viking sod houses behind a wooden fence at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada. / Dylan Kereluk, Wikimedia Commons // C...
Wednesday, 31 January 2024

Early medieval sword fished out of Polish river is in 'near perfect' condition

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Images of the early medieval sword as well as an X-ray image. (Image credit: O. Ochotny) Workers made a surprising discovery in Poland when ...

Archaeology Classes on the Oxford Experience summer school 2024

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Tom Quad, Christ Church, Oxford University – image David Beard The Oxford Experience summer school is held at Christ Church, Oxford.  Partic...
Tuesday, 30 January 2024

Viking “Ulfberht” 9th Century Sword Recovered from Vistula River in Poland

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The sword at the discovery site | photo Ośrodek Sportu i Rekreacji Włocławek A Viking sword from the 9th to 10th centuries was accidentally ...

Up Helly Aa: What happens at Shetland's Viking fire festival?

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The festival reaches its climax with the burning of a Viking galley Shetland's Up Helly Aa Viking fire festival is taking place in Lerwi...
Monday, 29 January 2024

Medieval and Viking-Age artifacts discovered in Norway

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A very rare Byzantine coin is among dozens of medieval and Viking-era objects discovered in eastern Norway last year. Officials with Innland...
Wednesday, 24 January 2024

Oldest runes in Denmark discovered on 2000-year-old knife

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Denmark’s oldest runes found on knife blade

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Archaeologists at the Museum Odense have identified Denmark’s oldest runes inscribed on a 1,850-year-old knife blade. The inscription consis...
Tuesday, 23 January 2024

Why Is The Oseberg Ship Burial A Great Viking Mystery?

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  The Oseberg Ship burial is one of the greatest Viking mysteries. The individuals buried together with the ship are a riddle, and the fact ...
Tuesday, 19 December 2023

Oldest known ship burial discovered in Norway predates Vikings

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An aerial view of the burial mound in central Norway. (Image credit: Geir Grønnesby) A large, grassy hill in Norway known as the Herlaugshag...

Vikings Pillaged, Conquered And Cleaned Their Teeth With Toothpicks

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A hole filed from the crown of a Viking tooth into the pulp to reduce toothache and infection. UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG After a long, hard d...

Sutton Hoo Saxon ship reconstruction aims for 2025 sailing

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The Sutton Hoo Saxon ship project, spearheaded by master shipwright Tim Kirk, is a remarkable effort to reconstruct the largest Saxon ship e...