In September, 2016, a group of five goose hunters discovered a millenary quite well-preserved Viking Age sword somewhere in the슠Skaft쎡rhreppur municipality from Iceland. The five men stumbled upon the artefact by chance, while on a goose hunting trip in the south of the country. A member of the goose hunters group, R쎺nar Sighvatsson, stated that…
What if the Vikings could make a historical comeback to Normandy, north-western France? The question was posed by a French language magazine entitled ‘France Pittoresque‘ via ‘Ouest France’. This is an English translation of the article which was originally published in French here, on Thursday, March 26, 2015. “A museum about the Vikings, the idea…
The Jomsvikings formed an order of semi-legendary Viking warriors who were renowned through their deeds on the battlefield and their bravery during the 10th and 11th centuries. The Jomsvikings were mercenaries, managing to develop a strong warrior culture during the end of the Viking Age. Although they were of Old Norse faith, the institutions of…
The H쎡vam쎡l (‘The Sayings of the High One’ in translation) is a long poem written in Old Norse which has been preserved in the Codex Regius (or Konungsb쎳k as it is known in Icelandic), meaning ‘The Royal Book’, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking Age.슠Codex Regius is an index of poems in…
Nordfjordeid is a small village from western Norway (Norwegian: Vestlandet, Vest-Norge or Vest-Noreg). It is the administrative centre of the municipality of Eid which belongs to Sogn og Fjordane county. Subsequent excavations from two burial mounds dating back to the Viking Age on the site of a small farm in the village led to the…
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