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…
An epic voyage showcasing the thrilling experience of 65 amazingly brave people who wanted to set sail from Roskilde, Denmark to Dublin, Ireland on the Viking Age reconstructed longboat ‘Havhingsten fra Glendalough’ — in translation ‘Sea Stallion from Glendalough’ — was filmed by the BBC for the historic TV series Timewatch. The longship with which…
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…
Old Norse for market place is kaupangr, but nowadays the term is mostly associated with Kaupang (i.e. the trade centre) in Skiringssal, on the western side of Oslofjord and in Viksfjord, near the town of Larvik (part of Larvik kommune), Vestfold county, southern Norway. This article will briefly discuss the history of the kaupang in…
Ribe is a small town situated in the southwest of the Jutland peninsula (Danish: Jylland), pertaining to the enlarged Esbjerg Municipality of the Region of South Denmark (Danish: Syddanmark).슠According to a recent study undergone by three archaeologists at the University of Aarhus in Denmark and the University of York in England, voyages between Ribe and…
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