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Serpentyne perform their song
"Viking Blood"
words & music Mark Jenkins c & p 2016
From Serpentyne's third album "The Serpent's Kiss"

Maggiebeth Sand - nyckelharpa, vocals
Mark Powell - hurdy-gurdy
Matthew Damian - electric guitar
Mark…

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Sheep were an important source of milk, meat and wool. The cloth made from wool was even a form of currency in Iceland during the Viking Age. Wool was gathered by plucking the sheep or by collecting it after it had been shed naturally. They did not…

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A Viking Sheep mug from the Sheep-ish company.

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A handy guide to Norse place name elements, produced by the Shetland Place Names Project, and available to download on the Shetland Amenity Trust Website.

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SHIELDMAIDEN is a short animation film about VIKINGS! Follow the adventures of the warrior girl Rota and her companions in their travels hrough the dark forests of the north!

SHIELDMAIDEN PART ONE
The first part of a viking saga. Our two heroes…

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A study of burials of Norse migrants was trumpeted by the popular press as showing that half of all Viking warriors were women.1 This is not the case as Tracy V. Wilson explained on her blog. The study focused on a small sample of Norse migrants and…

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Each proclamation displayed publicly before the Up Helly Aa festival includes a painting, usually relating to the Viking heritage of Shetland. These are housed in the Up Helly Aa Exhibition.

The Up Helly A' is a festival celebrated on the 24th day…

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These photographs are of several full-sized shields around Tønsberg Viking Festival. They feature a range of designs.

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The Saxon shieldwall at a reenactment of the battle of Stamford Bridge in 2013

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Ship detail from the lower panel of the Lärbro Tängelgårda I Image Stone (SHM 4373 I), one of three related stones from Lärbro Parish in Sweden. This panel shows a ship with nine individuals with helmets, and what may be a row of…

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A ship from the Viking River Cruises line seen in dock in Dresden. Photographed by Angelika Schoerner.

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View from inside the Ship St. gate in Dublin Castle, looking south towards Ship St. Barracks and the site of the church of St. Michael-le-Pole

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A weather vane from a Viking Age ship. This, like other weather vanes, was eventually placed on Heggum Church. It is currently on display in Kulturhistorisk museet in Oslo.

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A medieval weather vane from a ship. This, like other weather vanes, was eventually placed on a church, in this case Tingelstad Church. It is currently on display in Kulturhistorisk museet in Oslo.

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There are many ships depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry. They are Anglo-Saxon and Norman models, but they would have been of very similar construction to Scandinavian ships at this date, and we can learn a lot about the decoration of the ships from…

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Poster of ships through the ages, including Viking ships at Ecomare, Texel, The Netherlands

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Documentary about the replica of the Gokstad ship that crossed the Atlantic in the late nineteenth century. For more information, see http://www.vikingship.us/bps_documentary.htm

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A handy shortcut for the characters hooked-o and long hooked-o, produced by Joanne Shortt Butler. The characters can be cut and pasted into Word docs.
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