A handout produced by Joanne Shortt Butler on the origins of sagas: composition and tradition, including a timeline, extracts from sagas, and a reading list.
A short handout produced by Joanne Shortt Butler on the topic of Ari Thorgilsson’s Book of the Icelanders and Icelandic Identity, including a short reading list, questions, and a glossary of terms and characters.
Handout on Laxdœla saga saga (The Saga of the People of Laxárdalr) by Joanne Shortt Butler, including extracts from the saga, a family tree and reading list.
A handout produced by Joanne Shortt Butler on the Old Norse literature topic of 'The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey’s Godi', including background reading, questions to think about, and a glossary of terms and letters.
In which John Green teaches you about Vikings! That's right, one of our most requested subjects, the Vikings, right here on Crash Course. So what's the deal with Vikings? Well, the stuff you've heard about them may not be true. The Vikings weren't…
The skull of King Svend Estridsen (Sveinn Ástríðarson), who ruled Denmark from 1047 until his death in 1074 and is popularly regarded as the country's last 'Viking' king. His remains were excavated from his grave in Roskilde…
Images of a leather shoe found in Annaholty Bog on the border of Co. Limerick Co. Tipperary and dating to the eleventh or twelfth century. It is a well preserved example of a shoe type found in urban centres in Ireland and across Europe during the…
Reconstruction of an eleventh-century leather shoeby experimental archaeologist John Nicholl. The original wasfound in Annaholty Bog on the border of Co. Limerick and Co. Tipperary, and probably dates to the eleventh or twelfth century. It is of a…
Artwork by Youghal artist John O'Mahony, featuring a Viking with beard and horned helmet. Youghal was founded as a temporary settlement by the Vikings, but there is little tangible reminder of this Viking heritage.
The Christian body-building show TX Vikings was removed from the programme at Tønsberg vikingfestival after they used their show to proselytise, thus breaking an agreement they had made with the organisers.