Mr Claus Grube, the Danish Ambassador to the United Kingdom, claims that the sarcastic, self-deprecating, and understatement types of humour that popular in Britain might trace their roots back to the Viking Age, highlighting thus a common cultural heritage between the British and the Scandinavians. According to him, it was ultimately슠the Norsemen슠that brought sarcastic humour…
According to a recent research on some walrus bones found in Iceland, the precious and reputed Lewis Chessmen that are on display at the British Museum in London and at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh might actually be Icelandic in origin. The Lewis Chessmen represent one of the fewest best preserved chess sets…
Below is a list of 10 mythical beings from the Scandinavian folklore that you should know. These fictional characters are part of both the Norse mythology and the Scandinavian folklore and have been described in many Ancient texts since bygone times. The first name of some mythological creatures below will be given in Old Norse,…
Below is a list comprising 15 renowned Norsemen (Vikings) who are known for having sailed over the North Atlantic Ocean during the 9th and 10th centuries or who are reputed for having played a pivotal role in the history of the early medieval Scandinavian states and of Western Europe/Northwestern Europe during the Early Middle Ages….
(Die) Repser Burg or Reps (also known in the Transylvanian Saxon dialect as R쎤ppes, in Romanian as Rupea, and in Hungarian as K양halom) is a Transylvanian Saxon citadel located in Bra좙ov county (Kreis Kronstadt as it is known in German/Hochdeutsch), south-eastern Transylvania, Romania. In late Antiquity, on the site on which the citadel was subsequently…
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