Monday, 27 February 2023

10 Burial Excavations That Unveil Incredible Viking Women

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What was a Viking? The Vikings emerged from Scandinavia in the late eighth century as marauding raiders and traders with fantastic ships. Fr...
Thursday, 23 February 2023

Vikings and Scotland: 10 Interesting facts about ancient Vikings and their history in Scotland

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Scotland rests just over the North sea from Scandinavia which made it a prime entry point for Vikings entering the British Isles back when t...
Sunday, 19 February 2023

The Meols Pub Boat: a hypothesis

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Satellite view of the Railway Inn Pub. The position of the vessel is marked by an ellipse.  In 2007 Ground Penetrating Radar confirmed the e...
Saturday, 18 February 2023

Artist’s impression of the viking camp established in 873 at Repton (Derbyshire, England). Compost Creative, Author provided Hideouts, harbours and homes: how vikings may have owed their success to their encampments

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Artist’s impression of the viking camp established in 873 at Repton (Derbyshire, England). Compost Creative, Author provided For many years,...

Could there be a Viking boat buried underneath a Wirral pub carpark?

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80 years ago when the pub was built, workers made a discovery which is thought could be a Viking boat Dominga Dett, Chair of Wirral Archaeol...

Standing Swords

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(Arkeologerna Statens historiska museer)Upright swords, Köping, Sweden While excavating a Viking cemetery near the Swedish town of Köping, a...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS INVESTIGATE ANCIENT BOAT BURIED BENEATH CAR PARK

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM ARE INVESTIGATING AN ANCIENT BOAT BURIED BENEATH A PUB CAR PARK IN WIRRAL, ENGLAND. The boa...
Thursday, 16 February 2023

How medieval monasteries survived Viking raids

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Lyminge Archaeology | Twitter | Fair Use Archaeologists now claim that English monasteries were more resilient to Viking attacks than previo...
Monday, 13 February 2023

The world's oldest rune stone was found sticking out of the ground. Here’s how researchers figured out how old it is

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 The Svingerud stone is marked in this photo with a red ring. The photograph shows the way it stuck out in the excavation field. (Photo: KHM...
Saturday, 11 February 2023

Viking Games: 9 Nordic Ways to Pass the Time

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In the twelfth century CE, a young Norwegian Kali Kolsson ventured to Orkney. Eager to prove his worth, he listed his nine skills: “I am qui...
Friday, 10 February 2023

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The Vikings, masters of the seas and terror of medieval Europe, made and amassed thousands of viking beads that reveal surprising insights i...
Tuesday, 7 February 2023

The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire

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The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire By Tore Skeie Pushkin Press ISBN: 978-1-78227-835-1 This...

Is there any evidence that Iceland had human habitation prior to the arrival of Europeans?

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BJARNI F. EINARSSON The conventional date given for the settlement of Iceland is 874, plus or minus a couple of years. In terms of evidence ...
Friday, 3 February 2023

THE FOOD OF THE VIKINGS

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Image Credit : Shutterstock Commonly depicted as being fearless, brutal warriors, Vikings were also accomplished farmers, and fishermen. The...
Thursday, 2 February 2023

Viking warriors sailed the seas with their pets, bone analysis finds

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A Viking burial mound at Heath Wood being excavated. (Image credit: Julian Richards, University of York) A Viking cemetery in England doesn...

In pictures: Shetland's Up Helly Aa Viking fire festival

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Shetland's famous Up Helly Aa fire festival - with women and girls in the torchlit procession for the first time - has witnessed the bur...

Viking gods, goddesses & tricksters: 12 figures from Norse mythology

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Norse mythology is filled with fascinating figures which hold a mirror up to the societies that created their legends. From Odin, a one-eyed...

Vikings brought their animals to England, research suggests

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Excavations at Heath Wood in Derbyshire, the only known large-scale Viking cremation site in the British Isles. Photograph: Handout Experts ...

Vikings brought horses and dogs to England, cremated bones confirm

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Excavations at Heath Wood in England Julian Richards, University of York The first physical proof that Vikings brought horses and dogs to En...

First Solid Scientific Evidence That Vikings Brought Animals To Britain

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Viking burial mound at Heath Wood, Derbyshire, UK, being excavated. Credit: Julian Richards, University of York. Archaeologists have found w...

Study: Some Vikings Brought Horses and Dogs To Britain

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Cremation leaves behind bone fragments like these, which can still reveal information about their geographic origin, if not much else.Julian...

Horses and dogs sailed with Vikings to Britain, say scientists

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Vikings sailing from Scandinavia to England brought horses, dogs and perhaps even pigs with them, according to analysis of bone remains. Inv...
Wednesday, 1 February 2023

Medieval English monasteries found ways to survive Viking attacks, archaeologists find

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English monasteries were more resilient to Viking attacks than previously thought, archaeologists have concluded. ​ Lyminge, a monastery in ...
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...