Tag: Vikings

Hygiene In The Viking Age: Were The Vikings Clean?

The topic or subject of hygiene of the Norsemen during the Viking Age has been at times a bit controversial, depending on the medieval sources that are to be analysed in this particular regard. Controversial in the sense that certain sources are a bit conflicting and portray the Norse at totally different levels of hygiene,…


A Brief History Of The Vikings In Scotland

The Norse, commonly known as the Vikings, had a significant presence on the territory of Scotland during the Early Middle Ages, as it was the case elsewhere throughout the landscapes of the British Isles (most notably in early medieval Ireland and England). The Norsemen had a notable and long-lasting impact and historical legacy in early…


How Did The Vikings Navigate With Their Ships?

The Norse (commonly known as the Vikings, though the term Viking denotes an occupation or profession rather than an ethnicity) were very skilled navigators and merchants, in addition to being feared warriors (many of which were hired as mercenaries in the armies of Frankish kings, in Anglo-Saxon England as well as in the famous Varangian…


Norse-Inuit Trade In Greenland And The Arctic Region

It is no secret that the Norsemen (commonly known as the Vikings, though the term Viking denotes an occupation or profession rather than an ethnicity) were skilled navigators and merchants (in addition to feared warriors), but what some might not know is the fact that they conducted trade in some of the areas with the…


Norn, The Extinct North Germanic Language Close To Old Norse

Norn (alternatively known as Norroena) is an extinct North Germanic language which was very close to Old Norse (or norr쎸nt as it is known in Norwegian Bokm쎥l), the language the Norse spoke during the tumultuous Viking Age, a historical period of time that was part of the Early Middle Ages. It was mainly spoken in…