Tuesday, 31 January 2023

New Evidence Vikings Failed To Wipe Out Communities And Anglo-Saxon Monasteries

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  St Paul's Church, Jarrow. Credit: Adobe Stock - Electric Egg Ltd. The new evidence is presented after a detailed examination of archae...
Thursday, 26 January 2023

The Oldest Rune Stones in the World

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The Svingerud Stone is the oldest rune stone, created almost two thousand years ago There are many things that come into mind when thinking ...
Monday, 23 January 2023

How does the Nordic Cosmic System Depend on the Yggdrasil Tree?

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The concept of a world tree is present in many cultures’ legends. Examples of this include the sacred Bodhi fig tree under which the Buddha ...

Norwegian archaeologists uncover the world's oldest runestone

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The runestone found at Tyrifjorden, Norway, shown at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo AP Photo Runestones, typically raised at gravesi...

Enigmatic Ale’s Stones – Sweden’s Megalithic Ship-Like Formation

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  Ales stones, Hesten and others (Valleberga 20:1). Image credit: Jorchr - CC BY-SA 4.0 Myths, legends, and mystery surround this fascinatin...

Mysterious Svingerud Stone – World’s Oldest Rune Stone With Enigmatic Inscriptions Investigated By Experts – What Does It Say?

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  These runes were inscribed between the years 1 and 250 AD and date back to the earliest days of the enigmatic history of runic writing. Cr...

Norway reveals stone tablet providing clues to origins of Western writing

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The ancient rune stone found by Norwegian researchers is believed to be between 1,800 and 2,000 years old. It was found buried beneath a lat...
Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Found the world's oldest rune stone

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Photo: Alexis Pantos/KHM, UiO. During the first few centuries of the Common Era, during the period that archaeologists call the Roman Iron A...

Norway reveals stone tablet providing clues to origins of Western writing

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The ancient rune stone found by Norwegian researchers is believed to be between 1,800 and 2,000 years old. It was found buried beneath a lat...
Tuesday, 17 January 2023

The Viking Age

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Statue of Scandinavian God Odin with two Vikings. Editorial credit: drumdredd777 / Shutterstock.com The stereotype of a Viking is usually th...

Vikings in North America? Here's what we really know

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  Anyone standing today by the wind-swept shore of Epaves Bay at the northern tip of Newfoundland might find it hard to comprehend the enorm...
Monday, 19 December 2022

700-Year-Old Viking Shipwreck Found at the Bottom of Norwegian Lake

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A shipwreck at the bottom of Norway's largest lake, Mjøsa AARØNÆS, LARS, VIA DEFENCE FACEBOOK POST. During a government research mission...
Tuesday, 13 December 2022

Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers

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The University of Oxford online course: Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers is currently enroling for Trinity Term when the course will b...
Monday, 12 December 2022

Great Viking Fortresses Built By King Harald Bluetooth

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Aerial view of the Viking ring fortress of Aggersborg. The similarity in design with Trelleborg near Slagelse, is clearly evident. Image cre...

Revisiting one of Scotland's rarest Viking burials

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One hundred and forty years ago Victorian antiquarians excavated a rare Viking boat grave in the Inner Hebrides. What they uncovered on the ...
Monday, 28 November 2022

Medieval Iceland: A Timeline

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A look at the events and history of Iceland between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Iceland’s history begins with its exploration and set...
Monday, 21 November 2022

The ancient golden treasure rewriting Danish history

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A chance discovery is shedding new light on early Norse history, after two old school-friends, armed only with a metal detector stumbled acr...
Wednesday, 16 November 2022

The Viking Axe

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A ‘Danish’ Axe discovered in the Thames River. it dates from the 11th century. Photo by Medievalists.net Few weapons were so feared or as ev...
Wednesday, 9 November 2022

Archaeologists Unearth Trove of Viking Age Jewelry in Sweden

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All of the jewelry archaeologists unearthed from a Viking Age site north of Stockholm  Courtesy of Acta Konserveringscentrum Archaeologists ...
Thursday, 3 November 2022

Metal detectorist stumbles across Viking treasure hoard in Norway

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In the ninth century A.D., this treasure might have bought half a cow.  (Image credit: Brigit Maixner) Using a metal detector in a field, a ...
Tuesday, 1 November 2022

2 Viking swords buried upright might have connected the dead to Odin and Valhalla

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This sword has a preserved pommel (a knob at the end of the handle) with a "button" on top. (Image credit: The Archaeologists/Nati...

The mysterious Viking runes found in a landlocked US state

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Did Vikings find their way to a remote part of Oklahoma? Some in a small community believe so, thanks to controversial runic carvings found ...
Sunday, 30 October 2022

Harald Hardrada: King of Norway

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Coming back to Norway meant that Harald Hardrada had two relatives to deal with – Sweyn and Magnus. It would make for an interesting path to...
Saturday, 29 October 2022

Landscapes of the Norman Conquest

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An exciting new book “Landscapes of the Norman Conquest” by Trevor Rowley has now been published. For a long time, the Norman Conquest has b...

Viking beadmakers’ secrets revealed in new study

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The Viking Age bead makers were more advanced than previously believed. New research shows that craftsmen in Denmark around the year 700 use...

Viking silver treasure uncovered in Täby in Stockholm

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  A unique treasure hoard dating from the Viking Age has been uncovered in Täby, Stockholm. Consisting of arm rings, coins and eight torque-...

Viking unhacked silver hoard found in Sweden

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Sweden sees Norway’s Viking hack silver hoard and raises with a Viking hoard of silver jewelry and coins in pristine unhacked condition. The...
Saturday, 22 October 2022

Secrets Of Iron Age Power Center Uppåkra Revealed By Archaeologists

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New excavations in Uppåkra are at the forefront of cutting edge archaeological techniques. By combining big data, data modeling and DNA seq...

Thor’s hammer amulet found in Sweden

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Archaeologists have discovered a lead Thor’s hammer amulet dating to the late 10th century in Ysby in southwestern Sweden’s Halland province...
Wednesday, 5 October 2022

10 of the Best Viking Museums in Europe

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  Image Credit: Tim Graham / Alamy Stock Photo Get in touch with your inner Norseman and discover the greatest Viking museums across Europe....
Tuesday, 27 September 2022

How Vikings Influenced the Modern English Language

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Knowledgable linguist Rob Watts of RobWords explained how the Old Norse language of the Vikings had a profound effect upon the modern Englis...
Sunday, 18 September 2022

Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers (Online Course)

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The University of Oxford online course will run from Wednesday, 28 Sep 2022 to Friday 09 Dec 2022  You can find further details here...

Reykjavík 871±2

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IN 2001, ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS ON Aðalstræti unearthed the remains of a tenth-century longhouse with a wall dating back to 871±2, the o...

Viking Textiles Show Women Had Tremendous Power

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Cloth from Viking and medieval archaeological sites shows that women literally made the money in the North Atlantic Archaeology has a repres...
Thursday, 11 August 2022

Excavation in Seyðisfjörður Unearths Jewelry from Earliest Period of Settlement

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Photo: Fjörður – Seyðisfjörður fornleifar – Facebook Archaeologists in Seyðisfjörður have excavated jewelry that dates from 940 – 1100, just...

Medieval Artifacts Uncovered in Iceland

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SEYðISFJÖRðUR, ICELAND—Traces of a farmstead dated to the earliest settlement of Iceland have been uncovered in the East Fjords of the islan...
Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Vikings Actually Reached the Americas Long Before Columbus

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Reconstructed Viking-Age building next to the site of L'Anse aux Meadows. (Image: Glenn Nagel Photography) Vikings were active at a Newf...
Wednesday, 22 June 2022

New Thoughts on Eastern Europe's Medieval Source of Ivory

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TRONDHEIM, NORWAY—According to a statement released by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), researchers led by James B...

The Worst Year Ever to Be Alive in History

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The worst year to be alive? Eyjafjallajokull, the Icelandic volcano that threw transatlantic travel into a tailspin several years ago after ...
Sunday, 19 June 2022

Archaeologists find Viking Age shipyard

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Image Credit : Paul Parker – Stockholm University Archaeologists excavating at Birka on the island of Björkö, Sweden, have discovered a Viki...

Ivory found in Kyiv in 12th century originated from Greenland - study

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Fragments of walrus tusks unearthed in 2007 were traced back to Greenland, indicating that trading routes in the Middle Ages were more advan...
Monday, 13 June 2022

Silver coin featuring famous Viking king unearthed in Hungary

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The small silver coin was found near the Hungarian village of Várdomb. It dates to between 1046 and 1066 and is inscribed with the name of t...
Sunday, 22 May 2022

World’s largest ever DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren’t all Scandinavian

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An artistic reconstruction of ‘Southern European’ Vikings emphasising the foreign gene flow into Viking Age Scandinavia. image: Jim Lyngvild...

Surprising DNA study finds Vikings weren’t all Scandinavian

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Researchers have shown that not all Vikings were from Scandinavia.  (CREDIT: Creative Commons) Invaders, pirates, warriors – the history boo...
Tuesday, 17 May 2022

An intact Viking ship burial held riches—and a surprising mystery

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Vikings are often depicted as warmongering seafarers from Scandinavia, men who set out on expeditions to plunder distant lands. The lives of...
Friday, 13 May 2022

Uncovering the Secrets of a Forgotten Viking Town

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Approximately 45,000 artifacts and some 50,000 skeletal remains and animal bones were uncovered in the massive, decades-long excavation at B...
Wednesday, 11 May 2022

The Vinland Mystery

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How a husband-and-wife team proved Leif Erikson beat Columbus to North America ‘In this great ocean, many have found still another island, w...
Wednesday, 4 May 2022

The new cutting edge tour of Orkney that takes users headfirst into 5,000 years of history

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The Neolithic settlement of Skara Brae is a highlight of any trip to Orkney. PIC: HES. Visitors to the Orkney Isles can now immerse themselv...
Tuesday, 3 May 2022

Viking hoard dodges auction bullet

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Here’s an intriguing case of unintended consequences in cultural heritage law.  Meet the Everlöv Hoard: The Everlöv Hoard is a large group o...