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Blog: The Saga-Steads of Iceland
Emily Lethbridge's blog of how she travelled around Iceland reading the sagas at the locations where they took place.
Blog: The Viking Origins of the Red Hair Gene
A short article discussing the origins of the gene that controls red hair and relating it to the Vikings.
Blog: the vikings - The Viking Culture
A blog designed to introduce the Vikings to children
Blog: The World Will Tremble
Tamara's discussion of the 'Vikings' TV series and the directions it will be taking.
Blog: Two-handed axes
A discussion about two-handed (Dane) axes, looking at typologies, and the evidence for their use.
Blog: Valkyrja dot com
A blog about re-enactment of the Viking Age
Blog: Viking Settlement in Cork
A blog post about Norse and Danish settlement in Cork
Blog: Viking Specialist at Large
A blog by Dr Dayanna Knight, Viking archaeologist and anthropologist, and artist.
Blog: Viking-Age Metalwork
A blog describing research into Viking-Age metalwork by Jane Kershaw
Blog: Vikingsnitt
A blog about Viking re-enactment in Norway by Ingrid Galadriel of Trondheim Vikinglag.
Blog: Vikingtiden i Norge
A blog about the Viking Age in Norway that was created as part of a school project
Blog: Why did the Viking trading town of Kaupang totally disappear?
A blog post discussing the disappearance of Kaupang i Skiringssal.
Blog: Women in the Viking Age then and now: Powerful then, dangerous now?
A blog post about women in the Viking Age and what the Oseberg ship burial means for our understanding of their levels of power and agency.
Bloody Britain - 08/10 - the vikings
Episode 08 of Rory McGrath's comical look at some of the nastier moments in British History. This one begins with the first raid of THE VIKINGS in 793.
Blot at Gamla Uppsala
This blot was held at the ancient pagan burial mounds of Uppsala and was organised by Samfundet Forn Sed Sverige.
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Blue Viking Pizza
A Romanian pizza restaurant using a Viking logo to promote itself.
Bluetooth Logo
The logo for Bluetooth short-range wireless technology is a bind rune made up of the initials of Harald Bluetooth's name using the runes of the younger futhark: ᚼ (H) (Hagall) and ᛒ (B) (Bjarkan). This tenth-century King of Denmark famously…
Board Gaming With Historians: Vikings
In the first episode of our new video series, we play 'Vikings', a tile-placement strategy game designed by Michael Kiesling in 2007, in which Dr. Rory Naismith and Dr. Kate Wiles dispel the myth of horned Norsemen and uncover the secrets of buried…
Boat construction at Ribe VikingCenter
Boat-builder using traditional techniques and tools to reconstruct a small clinker-built boat at the wharf area of the Ribe VikingCenter. Ships were vital for local trade and transport as well as for raiding activities and exhibitions further…
Boat named 'Oden' photographed in Amsterdam
A small boat named Oden, with a stylised Viking head with beard and horned helmet. Seen on the canal in central Amsterdam.