Wednesday, 28 January 2009

Thousands celebrate Up Helly Aa

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Europe's biggest annual fire festival has been staged in Shetland. Known as Up Helly Aa, it celebrates the islands' Viking heritage ...
Tuesday, 27 January 2009

Vikings ready for fire festival

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The usually dark winter skies above Shetland are to be lit up with colour for the Up-Helly-Aa fire festival. Bearded Vikings wielding swords...

1,000 Vikings to set night ablaze

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Almost 1,000 "Vikings" will take to the streets of Shetland on Tuesday night in a torchlight procession to celebrate the islands...
Thursday, 8 January 2009

1,000 years on, perils of fake Viking swords are revealed

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It must have been an appalling moment when a Viking realised he had paid two cows for a fake designer sword; a clash of blade on blade in ba...
Saturday, 20 December 2008

VIDEO: "Viking Horse" Has 2 More Gaits

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Brought to the island by Vikings, the Icelandic horse does two gaits (besides walk, trot, and gallop) that no other horse does. Watch the vi...
Sunday, 2 November 2008

Icelandic heritage delegation in Island

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A DELEGATION from the Icelandic Saga Trail Association visited the Island last week to learn about heritage management. The seven-day trip w...
Wednesday, 29 October 2008

The Vikings' burning question: some decent graveside theatre

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The average Viking lived a life in which spirituality and thoughts of immortality played a far more important part than the rape and pillage...
Monday, 27 October 2008

Excavated burials reveal the Viking world-view

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Research into pagan Viking burials has provided an Aberdeen academic with new revelations into the way the early Norse led their lives and t...

Vikings preferred male grooming to pillaging

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The Vikings are traditionally known for leaving destruction in their wake as they travelled around Europe raping, pillaging and plundering. ...
Friday, 24 October 2008

Ancient treasures go on display at town museum

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A SILVER Viking neck ring and a hoard of medieval pennies are among the archaeological and metal-detecting finds that have gone on display a...

Swedish archaeologists find Iron Age wooden artifacts

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A team of archaeologists digging near the planned expansion of a roadway have uncovered 1,700 year old artifacts made of wood, making them s...
Thursday, 23 October 2008

Novgorod Archeologists Find 12th Century Hoard

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In the course of excavations in the historical centre of Veliki Novgorod, near the Monastery of the Dime archeologists have found hidden tre...

New dig to 'discover' St Edmund

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LITTLE is known about the ancient shrine to Suffolk's martyred saint. But archaeologists hope a new high-tech survey currently underway ...
Tuesday, 21 October 2008

Ancient Spindle with Runes Discovered in Reykjavík

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A fracture of a spindle with a runic inscription was discovered in an archeological excavation near the Althingi parliament building in Reyk...
Thursday, 16 October 2008

Timbers from a Viking home found in Hungate dig

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THE remains of a Viking home have been discovered in York by archaeologists. York Archaeological Trust archaeologists have exposed what they...
Tuesday, 14 October 2008

Uncovering north's Christian past

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A group of archaeologists are trying to establish if Norsemen brought Christianity to Caithness before St Columba arrived on Iona. The quest...
Thursday, 9 October 2008

Archaeologists dig deep to shed new light on city's Viking heritage

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IT has long been acknowledged that York is an archaeological gold mine, but the true scale of the city's long history still remains buri...
Monday, 6 October 2008

Swedish archaeologists uncover Viking-era church

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The remains of a Viking-era stave church, including the skeletal remains of a woman, have been uncovered near the cemetery of the Lännäs chu...

Hollywood Blockbuster on Vikings Shot in Iceland

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Agreements have been reached with producers that a huge Hollywood movie on Vikings directed by Iceland’s leading director Baltasar Kormákur ...

The Fourth Viking Congress

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I just wanted to give everyone a preview of the new Medievalists.net website, which we are working on. The site is using a Wordpress content...
Wednesday, 1 October 2008

Of mice and (Viking?) men: phylogeography of British and Irish house mice

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The west European subspecies of house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) has gained much of its current widespread distribution through commens...

'Viking mouse' invasion tracked

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Scientists say that studying the genes of mice will reveal new information about patterns of human migration. They say the rodents have ofte...

Movement of house mice could be used to trace colonisation

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The popular image of Vikings raping and pillaging their way around Europe and then returning with their booty to Scandinavia has been struck...
Sunday, 28 September 2008

Viking centre rebuilt after arson

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A Viking long house education centre has been rebuilt by retail staff after it was targeted by arsonists. The large wooden purpose-built hut...
Thursday, 25 September 2008

Rare Viking ingot found

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An ancient solid silver ingot found in Stagsden is stealing the limelight at Bedford Museum. The Viking coin is the first of its kind discov...
Saturday, 20 September 2008

Viking Age Triggered by Shortage of Wives?

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During the Viking Age from the late eighth to the mid-eleventh centuries, Scandinavians tore across Europe attacking, robbing and terrorizin...

One thousand year old Danish shield discovered

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Danish archaeologists say they have found a well-preserved Viking shield that is more than 1,000 years old. Archaeologist Kirsten Christense...

Docu-Drama Movie on Icelandic Sagas Premieres

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Austrian-produced docu-drama Ragnarök – Myths and Sagas of the North will premiere in the Viking Village in Hafnarfjördur next Friday, Septe...
Sunday, 14 September 2008

New Viking grave find in central Sweden

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Six grave sites dated from late in the Viking era have been uncovered in Lännäs outside of Örebro in central Sweden. The graves were discove...

Orkney's Christian Viking Heritage

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The Old Man of Hoy, the famous 140m rock stack that rises out of the sea in the Isles of Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland, is well kn...

Kimmirut site suggests early European contact

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Vikings - or perhaps other Europeans - may have set up housekeeping and traded with Inuit 1,000 years ago near today's community of Kimm...

Newfoundland Viking site remarkable

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More than 1,200 years ago, Vikings from Norway set out on a series of daring voyages that would eventually result in their being the first E...
Wednesday, 3 September 2008

The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Landscape and Economy (VASLE) Project

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In the last fifteen years the role of metal-detected objects in the study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian England has greatly increase...
Tuesday, 12 August 2008

Viking longship returns to home port after epic sail

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THE VIKING replica longship Sea Stallion returns to home waters in Roskilde today, after a 2,800 nautical-mile round trip between Denmark an...
Thursday, 31 July 2008

University of Oxford Online Viking Course

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The new University of Oxford online archaeology course “Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers” is now open for registration. The course ov...

Viking ship sets sail across North Sea

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THE VIKING replica longship Sea Stallion is en route across the North Sea on the most demanding leg of its voyage from Ireland to Denmark. T...
Wednesday, 30 July 2008

Ruins may be Viking hunting outpost in Greenland

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OSLO – Ruins recently discovered on Greenland may mark the Vikings' most northerly year-round hunting outpost on the icy island, a resea...
Monday, 7 July 2008

The Sea Stallion has left Ireland on course for Lands End

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The high tide bore the Sea Stallion away from Ireland with 200-400 nautical miles ahead We have the opportunity for the longest single voyag...

VIKING RING FOUND IN NOTTS

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Treasure including a Viking gold finger ring and a silver buckle have been found in Notts. An hearing was held on the finds yesterday at Not...
Monday, 16 June 2008

Archeological dig near Althingi

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Archeologists are due to start digging in Tjarnargata in the centre of Reykjavík in so called Althingisreitur or Althingi’s spot right by Ic...
Saturday, 7 June 2008

A Kings Manor Found in Greenland?

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A new interpretation of Grænlandslýsing ,a script by Ívar Bárdarson, suggests that Hvalseyrarbær an old structure from the middle ages situa...
Tuesday, 3 June 2008

Home sweet home for the Viking settlers

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A BOOK by a Castletown author providing the first detailed view of Viking settlements in the Island will be published on July 1. It is writt...
Monday, 2 June 2008

The Sea Stallion is back in its element!

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In a well-oiled operation last night, the Sea Stallion was returned to the harbour in Dublin. The ship must now be got ready for the long jo...
Wednesday, 28 May 2008

Authentic Viking DNA Retrieved From 1,000-year-old Skeletons

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Although "Viking" literally means "pirate," recent research has indicated that the Vikings were also traders to the fish...

Archeologists Discover Unique Things in Veliki Novgorod

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A group of archeologists carrying out diggings in Veliki Novgorod have found several ancient feeding bottles for babies. The finds were disc...
Monday, 26 May 2008

Latest Newsletter from Havhingsten fra Glendalough

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The latest Newsletter from Havhingsten fra Glendalough (The Sea Stallion from Glendalough) in now available. The reproduction Viking ship wi...

Sea Stallion steps back in history

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AT three o’clock next Thursday afternoon Dubliners will be treated to an extraordinary spectacle. The Viking ship Sea Stallion, which has be...

Danewerk und Haithabu sollen Weltkulturerbe werden

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Mit einem länderübergreifenden Antrag wollen Island, Dänemark, Schweden und Deutschland ihre Stätten der Wikingerkultur als gemeinsames UNES...
Thursday, 8 May 2008

Irish Viking trade centre unearthed

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One of the Vikings' most important trading centres has been discovered in Ireland. The settlement at Woodstown in County Waterford is es...

Metal detectorists thrilled at Viking sword find

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BURIED for more than a 1,000 years, these beautifully cast fragments of a Viking sword could be a once-in-a-lifetime find for two metal dete...