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...
Monday, 11 December 2023

Delve into the secrets of the runes with new course starting January

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The third of our three short courses starting in January focuses on runes – a writing system that developed in western Europe in the first m...
Wednesday, 6 December 2023

Rollo: Viking Sea Lord, Chieftain, Lone Wolf And The First Ruler Of Normandy

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  At the height of their glory, the Vikings formed many new Scandinavian dynasties. At first, they were considered foreigners, but they even...

Scandinavia's oldest known ship burial is located in mid-Norway

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This summer, archaeologists and a metal detectorist conducted a small survey of Herlaugshagen, at Leka in the northern part of Trøndelag Cou...
Monday, 27 November 2023

Viking-era graves found in the heart of Gothenburg, Sweden

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A report just published by the Gothenburg City Museum confirms that the graves found in Burgårdsparken this summer date to the Viking era. T...
Wednesday, 15 November 2023

Scandinavia’s Oldest Identified Ship Burial in Trøndelag “Rewrites History”

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In Leka, a municipality in Norway’s Trøndelag county, archaeologists have uncovered Scandinavia’s oldest identified ship burial, dating back...

Oldest Scandinavian Ship-Burial Identified Re-Writes History – Amazing Find That Predates The Viking Age

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  Under this mound at Leka in Trøndelag, archaeologists have found a ship grave from before the Viking Age. Credit: Robert Fry /NTNU Science...
Friday, 10 November 2023

American Vikings?

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For a thousand years, legends claimed that Vikings settled in North America. In my book American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Land...
Thursday, 9 November 2023

Viking Bracelet Made 1,000 Years Ago Found in Farmer's Field—'Real Shock'

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The piece of a Viking Age silver bracelet was found in a farmer's field in Innlandet County, Norway, on October 28. It is thought that t...
Wednesday, 8 November 2023

A Finnish Man Inspecting a Pipe Trench Discovered a Christian Burial Site Dating Back to the Swedish Crusades

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Crusade-era mortuary is located in the yard of the house on the left. Photo: Juha Ruohonen / University of Turku, archaeology. A man who was...
Monday, 6 November 2023

Exploring the Mästermyr chest discovery and its Viking-era tools

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Unearthed in a onetime peat bog near Gotland, Sweden, the Mastermyr chest is a cache of Viking artifacts showcasing advanced early medieval ...
Tuesday, 24 October 2023

How the Vindelev Hoard changed our understanding of the worship of Odin

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The Vindelev Hoard, a treasure trove of golden artifacts dating back to centuries before the Viking Age, was accidentally discovered by an a...
Monday, 23 October 2023

New Discovery Uncovers a Forgotten Viking Queen More Celebrated Than Kings

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The runestone from Læborg is dedicated to Thyra as the dróttning, meaning “lady” or “queen.” NATIONAL MUSEUM OF DENMARK WHEN YOU THINK OF VI...
Wednesday, 18 October 2023

Medieval Cemetery Discovered in Finland

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(Riikka Saarinen / Turku Museum Center) SALO, FINLAND—YLE reports that construction work to install geothermal pipes in western Finland’s Sa...

Thor's hammer part of Viking finds returning to Thetford

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The Thor's hammer pendant, which could have been worn by one of the invaders, was found just outside South Lopham, about 11 miles (17km)...

Thor's hammer pendant unearthed in Norfolk declared treasure

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A silver pendant bearing the hammer of the Norse god Thor unearthed in Norfolk may be linked to the first Viking invaders of Britain. The ar...

Crusader Era Cemetery and Sword Discovered in Finland

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Crusader era sword found in Salo, Finland. COURTESY RIIKKA SAARINEN Crusader era burials have been found in a cemetery by archaeologists in ...
Sunday, 15 October 2023

Norwegian Archaeologists Are Salvaging Priceless Artefacts From Melting Glaciers—Before It’s Too Late

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The arrow found by Glacier Archaeology Program. Image: Espen Finstad/secretsoftheice.com. There is surely little upside to the environmental...
Saturday, 14 October 2023

Varangian Guard, the Vikings of the Byzantine Empire

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Depiction of the Varangian Guard,the Vikings of the Byzantine Empire. Image: Joannis Scylitza, 12th century. Credit: Public domain The Vikin...

1,000-Year-Old Viking Runes May Finally Solve Mystery of an Ancient Queen

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Jelling 2 with runes chosen for analysis. (3D-scanning by Zebicon, drawing by Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt.)3D-scanning by Zebicon, drawing by Lail...
Wednesday, 11 October 2023

Viking Queen Thyra’s Power And Position Revealed On Famous Jelling Runestones

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New research not only reveals who carved the runes into the Jelling stones, but also hints at how important Queen Thyra was. Image credit: a...

Mysterious Viking queen may have helped unify Denmark in the 900s

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The Læborg runestone has an inscription that mentions Queen Thyra Queen Thyra, the mother of King Harald Bluetooth, was commemorated on four...

'Denmark’s salvation'? Runestones hint at Viking queen's power

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New research on 1,000-year-old inscriptions suggests that the wife and mother of two Viking rulers may have been much more powerful in her o...
Tuesday, 10 October 2023

Glass windows could be found in Viking-Age Denmark and Sweden, study finds

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New research has revealed that the Vikings had windows with glass panes as early as the 9th century. While glazed windows are associated wit...
Monday, 9 October 2023

How the Great Heathen Army slaughtered all before them during the Dark Ages

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The Great Heathen Army, a coalition of Norse warriors, stormed the shores of England in the late 9th century, forever altering the trajector...
Saturday, 7 October 2023

Vikings had windows, another shift away from their image as barbaric Norsemen, Danish museum says

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Mads Dengsø Jessen, a senior researcher at the National Museum of Denmark, holds a glass fragment from the Viking Age. John Fhær Engedal Nis...
Thursday, 5 October 2023

1,400-year-old gold figures depicting Norse gods unearthed at former pagan temple

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Known as "gullglubber," the gold-foil figure depicts the god Frøy and the goddess Gerd. (Image credit: The Museum of Cultural Hist...
Monday, 2 October 2023

Archeological evidence shows the violence of Viking raids on the coasts of Scotland

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Iona Abbey, situated on the remote Scottish island in the Inner Hebrides, was a central religious site that experienced multiple Viking raid...

A Norwegian Man Stumbled Upon a Trove of Gold Dating to the Early Middle Ages, Including a Rare Pendant Depicting the Norse God Odin

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Amateur archaeologist Erlend Bore posing with a gold treasure photographed shortly after he found them in the ground with a metal detector o...

Norwegian family finds Viking-era relics while looking for earring

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One expert concluded that the buckle dates from between 780 and 850 A family in Norway were searching for a lost gold earring in their garde...
Thursday, 28 September 2023

Shimmering item in dirt turns out to be rare 1,200-year-old treasure in Norway.

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Thirty years ago, while driving along a highway in Norway, Harald Jacobsen noticed some peculiar-looking soil — and stumbled upon the ruins ...
Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Impressive Textile Reconstruction Shows What Viking Age People Dressed Like

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  The finished outfits in the Viking Age exhibition, The Raid, at the National Museum of Denmark. Credit: Charlotte Rimstad Some historical ...

British Museum asks public and experts to help recover stolen artefacts

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The British Museum has asked the public to help identify and recover ancient artefacts that have gone missing from its collection. Last mont...
Wednesday, 20 September 2023

VOTIVE GOLD HOARD FOUND IN PAGAN TEMPLE

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IN A PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OSLO’S MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE DISCOVERED A VOTIVE GOLD HOARD DURING RO...

1400-year-old gold foil figures found in pagan temple

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Archaeologists have discovered a votive gold hoard during road development works in Vingrom, south of Lillehammer on the shores of Lake Mjøs...
Friday, 1 September 2023

Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers

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The 2013 Michaelmas Term of the University of Oxford online course “ Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers ” will begin on Wednesday, 27 Se...

What Viking Funerary Flatbread Teaches Archeologists About Ancient Baking

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When most people think of the Vikings, they probably envision what the Vikings did way before picturing what they ate. But if food is fuel, ...
Monday, 28 August 2023

The Norse and the Sea: the Maritime Cultural Landscape of Scandinavian Scotland

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The Norse and the Sea: the Maritime Cultural Landscape of Scandinavian Scotland Paper by Alex Sanmark and Shane McLeod Given at the Archaeol...

Vikings Were in America Before Columbus, Study Claims

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Vikings from Greenland were living in North America before the arrival of Christopher Columbus, according to a recent study.. Credit: Helgi ...
Friday, 18 August 2023

International Medieval Congress 2024

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The Viking Society is proposing to organise sessions at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds in 2024. The dates of the Conference ar...
Friday, 21 July 2023

Viking House The Size Of Two Tennis Courts Discovered In Norway

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  It was in this rural field it once all went down, from the Bronze Age to around the 18th century. Thanks to discoveries made by metal dete...
Sunday, 16 July 2023

Unique Female Viking Grave In Swedish Mountains Reveals Its Secrets

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  Archaeologists have found a rare female Viking grave in the Swedish mountains. Credit: Adobe Stock - Fotokvadrat "My first thought wa...
Tuesday, 11 July 2023

Norwegian couple found a Viking Age Grave And Sword in their garden

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While trying to expand their home, a Norwegian couple found a Viking Age grave and sword in their garden. It’s not always necessary to trave...
Thursday, 6 July 2023

Ancient Scandinavians wrote encrypted messages in runes 1500 years ago

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The Ellestad stone, inscribed between AD 500 and 700, appears to include encrypted runes Unknown/Creative Commons People living in Scandinav...
Tuesday, 27 June 2023

The Norn Language: Scotland’s mysterious Viking tongue that can be found in modern Scots

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  Dubbed the “sixth Scandinavian language” Norn was spoken by Scots for centuries prior to its extinction, but echoes of this past can still...
Monday, 26 June 2023

How to Make a Viking Warrior?

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"Making a Warrior: the Social Implications of Viking Age Martial Ideologies” is the title of a new research project, which was recently...