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Four boat burials and several other burials from the period immediately before the Viking Age were found after a chance metal detector find in Bitterstad, Norway. Excavations on the site showed that the boats were c. 8m long with room for 12 rowers.…

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A news article about the threat to a replica Viking ship in Good Templar Park, Geneva, Illinois

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This blot was held at the ancient pagan burial mounds of Uppsala and was organised by Samfundet Forn Sed Sverige.

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Sunnmøre Museum in Ålesund includes some replica Viking ships.

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The article discusses how Vikings used their travel chests as rowing seats when voyaging, and considers whether modern travellers and travel companies might have something to learn from this.

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Storynory is a website with audio stories for children, including stories about the Norse gods, such as this one about Loki. The language of the site is aimed at children of about 10 years old, although it points out that younger children can follow…

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From Wikipedia: "The Banner Saga is a Viking-themed tactical role-playing video game developed by Stoic... The game takes place in a Viking legend-inspired world, stuck in a perpetual twilight since the sun disappeared"

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Sven Nordin as Olaf II in The Saint Olav Drama at Stiklestad, Norway

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Anders Baasmo Christensen as King Olav in the 2003 production of The Saint Olav Drama.

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The Culture Centre at Stiklestad was built to mark commemorate the Battle of Stiklestad which is usually taken to mark the coming of Christianity to Norway in 1030.

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The Viking museum at Haithabu (Hedeby)

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This website provides a general synthesis of data about early medieval combs, including Viking and Viking Age combs.

Cite this as: S. Ashby 2011 'An Atlas of Medieval Combs from Northern Europe', Internet Archaeology 30.…

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An annual walk in north-west England to commemorate the Viking heritage of the area and the life of Norway's patron saint. The link takes you to the article about it in The Norseman magazine

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The website for the Melting Pot project which proposes to use cutting-edge techniques to study how food and cooking were used to forge social relationships in Viking-Age Britain.

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This video is about Jesse Byock's interdisciplinary research in Iceland. The material discuss the use of sagas, history and archaeology in the Mosfell Valley in Iceland. The Mosfell Archaeological Project is an international…

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A description of building a Viking house based on the archaeological evidence from Dublin.

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The year is 872, and many of the separate kingdoms of what we now know as England have fallen to the invading Danes, leaving the great kingdom of Wessex standing alone and defiant under the command of King Alfred.

Against this turbulent backdrop…

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A blog post about a miracle aassociated with St Olaf

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A blog post about the hymn for St Olav written in 1896 by Norwegian poet and playwright Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.

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The logo of this steel storage company in the Port of Tórshavn appears to be based on the sail of a Viking Ship

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