VIKING GREAT ARMY: ARCHAEOLOGISTS START SEARCH FOR VIKING AGE CAMP
A dig is taking place in Northumberland with hopes of finding a camp belonging to the Viking Great Army...
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Sep 21, 20225 min read
MORE FARMERS THAN FIGHTERS: THE VIKING AGE LIFE
The vikings left an indelible mark on history, particularly European history, as they raided, looted, pillaged, and conquered...
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Sep 19, 202215 min read
VIKING WOMEN: THE ORIGINS OF THEY TREMENDOUS POWER
Cloth from Viking and medieval archaeological sites shows that women literally made the money in the North Atlantic...
Livros Vikings
Sep 13, 20222 min read
AND AFTER ALL, WHO WERE HÚSKARL AND HÚSKONA DURING THE VIKING AGE?
The “húskarl” (masculine noun, meaning “man of the house")and his wife the "húskona"...
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Aug 30, 20224 min read
ICELAND’S ANCIENT CAVES REVEAL THE ISLAND’S VIKING EARLY HISTORY
Iceland’s early viking settlers built extensive cave systems to survive...
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Aug 10, 20222 min read
DONE! HEREFORDSHIRE VIKING HOARD TO 'COME HOME' AFTER FUNDRAISER
A hoard of Viking treasure has been bought by a council's museum service...
Livros Vikings
Aug 8, 20222 min read
A VIKING'S PENDANT IS FOUND NEAR KING'S LYNN, ENGLAND
A St Edmund memorial penny worn by a Viking to "advertise his Christianity" has been found by a metal detectorist...
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Aug 4, 20224 min read
THE VIKING AGE'S DERRYNAFLAN HOARD
One of the most exciting archaeological finds in the history of Irish art was unearthed on Tipperary's Derrynaflan Island by a man and...
Livros Vikings
Jul 14, 20225 min read
THE LOST VIKING VILLAGE OF KAUPANG
Kaupang was a harbor town supposedly located within the larger district known in the literature as “Skiringssal”...
Livros Vikings
Jul 6, 20222 min read
GREENLANDICS FROM VIKING AGES TRADED WALRUS IVORY WITH UKRAINE
Historians have long believed that walrus ivory traded throughout Ukraine and Russia during the Middle Ages came from the Barents Sea...
Livros Vikings
Jun 27, 20228 min read
IN JUNE OF 793AD, THE VIKINGS ATTACKED LINDISFARNE, KNOW HOW IT WAS
One such day was the 8 June, 793. That was the day the Vikings attacked the monastery at Lindisfarne...
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Jun 24, 20222 min read
GOVERNMENT U-TURN SAVES NEW VIKING AGE MUSEUM, WILL IT BE?
Norway's Viking ships can finally look forward to an improved home following the government's change of heart on funding...
Livros Vikings
Jun 17, 20222 min read
A 1,200-YEAR-OLD RUNESTONE WAS DISCOVERED DURING A KITCHEN RENOVATION
Mosekærstenen is the 44th runestone found in the area around Randers, and the National Museum must now appraise the stone to determine ho...
Livros Vikings
Jun 1, 20228 min read
SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST SPECTACULAR VIKING ARTEFACTS
The vikings were influenced by cultures before and informed those after, finding an artefact that genuinely adds to the picture of the Vi...
Livros Vikings
May 30, 20223 min read
OSLO’S FAMOUS VIKING SHIPS AT RISK AS DEMANDS BUDGET CUTS
Ten years ago, experts concluded that the three world-famous Viking ships on display at Oslo’s Viking Ship Museum needed a new home...
Livros Vikings
May 16, 20225 min read
THE LESSER-KNOWN VIKING CRUSADE
The first European king to set sail for the Holy land was from Norway, Sigurd I, in the summer of 1110 a.C....
Livros Vikings
Apr 19, 202210 min read
THE REAL-HISTORY OF THE FAMOUS VIKING SIEGES OF PARIS
Ninth-century France proved very lucrative for the Vikings. It was a land marred by civil war and bad harvests, and the Norsemen took adv...
Livros Vikings
Apr 15, 20223 min read
3 FIERCE FEMALE VIKING WARRIORS THAT YOU WOULDN’T WANT TO MESS WITH
There had been debates among historians on whether real female Viking warriors who fought, raided, and ransacked just as fiercely as men...
Livros Vikings
Apr 8, 20224 min read
THE PERFECTLY PRESERVED VIKING WEAVER’S SWORD
The Weaver’s Sword is a Viking artefact, believed to date to the late 11th century...
Livros Vikings
Mar 28, 20223 min read
£776,250 FUNDRAISER LAUNCHED TO BRING VIKING EARLY MEDIEVAL TREASURE BACK HOME
A campaign has been launched to raise £776,250 to bring a history-changing Viking hoard that was discovered in a field near the south Shr...
Livros Vikings
Mar 23, 20225 min read
THE VARANGIAN GUARD, THE VIKINGS WHO SERVED AS THE BYZANTINE EMPEROR’S PERSONAL ARMY
Durante séculos, os vikings viajaram de toda a Escandinávia para se juntar à elite da Guarda Varangiana que protegia o imperador romano o...
Livros Vikings
Mar 20, 20226 min read
WHAT THE LAST VIKING RAID ON WALES CAN TELL US ABOUT THEIR MEDIEVAL HISTORY
On 28th October, 1209, the inhabitants of the Welsh borough of Llanfaes at the mouth of the Menai Strait would have seen six longships...
Livros Vikings
Mar 18, 20221 min read
DEN NORSKE LANDSLOV
Antes e depois da Era Viking (Século IX ao XI) os nórdicos sempre tiveram a sua reputação guerreira como símbolos de força, disciplina...
Livros Vikings
Mar 15, 20222 min read
VIKING ARTEFACTS FOUND IN BEBINGTON COULD LEAD TO ANSWERS ABOUT HISTORIC EVENTS
Viking artefacts were found in Bebington, Merseyside which will be examined to uncover new insights into where they came from...
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