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The Viking Answer Lady
The Viking Answer Lady is a popular website that began life as a series of articles for the newsletter of the Barony of Bjornsborg, a branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism. It includes articles on many aspects of the Vikings.
The Viking Age: History and Culture of the Medieval Scandinavian Expansion
The syllabus for a course about the Vikings at undergraduate level.
The Viking Age Town of Birka, Sweden
A short essay about the Viking Age town of Birka in Sweden
The Viking Age Compendium
A compendium of the material culture of Viking Age Britain
The Viking Age boat burial at Balladoole, Isle of Man.
Stones marking the rough outline of the Viking Age boat burial at Balladoole, Isle of Man, a double burial of a man and a woman. See also item #2783
The Vendel XIV Helmet
A helmet in the museum at Gamla Uppsala
The Vale of York Hoard at The Yorkshire Museum
The Vale of York hoard was discovered in 2007.
The Vale of York Hoard
The Vale of York Hoard was found in 2007, and was the largest Viking Age hoard found in England since the Cuerdale Hoard. It is on display at The Yorkshire Museum in 2015. The hoard comprises a gilded silver cup, silver coins, silver objects and a…
The Up Helly Aa Proclamation, 2016
Proclamation and Artwork produced for the 2016 Up Helly A', and on public display in Lerwick, Shetland. The proclamations typically poke fun at the establishment.
The Up Helly A' is a festival celebrated on the 24th day after Christmas in…
The Up Helly A' is a festival celebrated on the 24th day after Christmas in…
The unfolding story of the Brough of Deerness
Excavations at the Brough of Deerness have found a high-status, Norse settlement.
The Tune Ship
The Tune ship has not survived as well as the Gokstad and Oseberg ships, with which it shares the Vikingskipshuset. However, it appears to have been a faster, sea-going vessel that could have outsailed both. It is not a cargo ship, because it does…
The Thoms Window in Lerwick Town Hall, Shetland
Stained glass window depicting the third Bishop of Trondheim, Eysteinn Erlendsson and the first bishop of Ornkey and Shetland, William the Old, who probably acceded to the Bishopric around 1102. He is pictured here with a model of St Magnus…
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles visit The Last of the Viking Heroes
A comic featuring Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Vikings.
The Swedish National Heritage Board's Flickr set of runic inscriptions and picture stones
Photographs of runic inscriptions and picture stones from the archives of the Swedish National Heritage Board
The structure of Bósa saga
A task sheet for students to help them analyse the structure of Bósa saga
The Stora Hammars I image stone
One of four early Viking-Age picture stones from Stora Hammars in Gotland, featuring scenes of battle, and imagery interpreted as having a mythical or religious referent. Dated to c. 550 - 799AD.For a series of high res images, see…
The Stone ships (Skeppssättning)(Nordic bronze age - Viking age)
The Stone ship or ship setting was an early burial custom, characteristically Scandinavian but also found in Northern Germany and the Baltic states. The grave or cremation burial is surrounded by tightly or loosely fit slabs or stones in the outline…
The Stern of the reconstructed Viking ship 'Sea Stallion from Glendalough'
For more information see http://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/visit-the-museum/exhibitions/the-five-reconstructions/the-sea-stallion-from-glendalough-skuldelev-2/
The Steine of Long Stone (Ivar the Boneless' Pillar), Dublin
A replica of a pillar erected in the tenth or eleventh century in the River Liffey by the inhabitants of Viking-Age Dublin. This replica was produced by artist Clíodna Cussen in 1986 and depicts Ivar / Ímar , founder of the Uí Ímair dynasty…
The Song of the Vikings, Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths with Nancy Marie Brown
Nancy Marie Brown takes us back to medieval Iceland and introduces us to perhaps the greatest storyteller of the period, Snorri Sturluson. Part of the Art and Culture Series at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum.