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Blog post: Vikings galore!
A blog post with photographs of Viking reenactors in Sweden.
La Drakkar Camembert
La Drakkar Camembert from La Laiterie de Gratot in Manche, Normandy. The branding draws on the Norse heritage of Normandy and includes a stylised Viking drakkar (or warship). It is one of several Normandy cheeses to draw on Viking heritage.
La Ferme des Vikings
A bed-and-breakfast, and working farm that produces, jam and honey. The actual Viking connection is unclear.
Viking Ship Artwork, Dock Road, Limerick
Metal artwork depicting a Viking ship on the side of 1 Steamboat Quay, Dock Road, Limerick, a mixed use apartment and commercial block.
Digitala Sveriges Runinskrifter
Digital copies of the series "Sveriges runinskrifter", the standard corpus work for Swedish runic inscriptions.
Anundshög, Västerås (Slide-Show)
Anundshög, Västerås. Sveriges största gravhög.
(A slide-show with pictures of Anundshög burial mound, ship settings and surrounding area. Captions in Swedish)
(A slide-show with pictures of Anundshög burial mound, ship settings and surrounding area. Captions in Swedish)
Utgravning av Gokstadskipet 1880 / Excavation of the Gokstad Ship in 1880
A historical photo of the partly-excavated Gokstad ship in Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway in the 1880s. From the Universitetsmuseens fotoportal
Kulturhistorisk museum, Oslo
The website of the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo which includes a Viking section
Video - kopiering av Langeidøksa
A video that shows the process of making a reconstruction of the Langeid axe. A shorter videos shows the same but in English.
Bredøkser med messingbeslag
The Kulturhistorisk museum in Oslo has six axes with bronze fittings on their shafts in its collections. The axes all date from the last part of the Viking Age, and there are photographs of them in the museum's online collections.
Kulturen: kulturhistoriska föreningen för Södra Sverige
Kulturen manages a number of museums and open-air museums in southern Sweden. The main museum is Kulturen i Lund which is also near Universitetsmuseet
Viking Age Dyes - A Brief Overview
A discussion of the dyestuffs available to the Vikings and the colours they could have made with them.
Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog
Dictionary of Old Norse Prose
Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog
Online dictionary of Old Norse
Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog
Online dictionary of Old Norse
Submarines Named Munin and Hugin
Two autonomous submarines produced by Kongsberg Maritime are named Hugin ('thought') and Munin ('mind') after Odin's ravens, which brought him information.
Kongernes Jelling Water Featuring Harald Bluetooth or Gorm the Old
Bottled water on sale in Kongernes Jelling, which features a drawing of Harald Bluetooth or King Gorm the Old on the label.
Explanation of the Bluetooth logo at Kongernes Jelling
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), as explained in the exhibition at Kongernes…
Torslunda helmet plate
Die for making plates to decorate helmets found at Torslunda on Öland, Sweden. It features two warriors in decorated tunics, wearing boar-crested helmets, and carrying spears and swords. The leading figure has a ring-sword indicating that he is of…
Nyheter: Tusenvis av bilister har passert denne haugen uten å ane noen ting
The news story discusses the start of excavation of an apparently undisturbed grave mound beside the E6 near Fangberget gård in Ringsaker, Hedmark, Norway.
TV: Norsk Historie
Norsk historie, sesong 1, episode 2: Nordmennenes land - 800-1270
Birkebeinerne på Ski over Fjeldet med Kongsbarnet
From Wikimedia Commons: Depiction of Birkebeiner skiers carrying Prince Haakon to safety during the winter of 1206 has become a national Norwegian icon. The prince grew up to be King Haakon IV whose reign marked the end of the period known as the…