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Frieze: Nidhogg
Nidhogg' is a frieze by Dagfin Werenskiold that is displayed outside Oslo City Hall together with eleven other friezes of his. The friezes are made of pine deck timber, impregnated with linseed oil, and then painted and gilded with gold or silver.…
Frieze: The Death of Balder
The Death of Balder' is a frieze by Dagfin Werenskiold that is displayed outside Oslo City Hall together with eleven other friezes of his. The friezes are made of pine deck timber, impregnated with linseed oil, and then painted and gilded with gold…
Frieze: Frigg
Frigg' is a frieze by Dagfin Werenskiold that is displayed outside Oslo City Hall together with eleven other friezes of his. The friezes are made of pine deck timber, impregnated with linseed oil, and then painted and gilded with gold or silver. The…
Entrance to Vikingemuseet (Viking Museum) under Nordea Bank Århus Denmark
Entrance to Vikingemuseet (Viking Museum) under Nordea Bank, Århus, Denmark. 'Aros In The Viking Age' exhibition on excavation site of original town now underneath Nordea bank, Aros = Århus. Exhibit: both replicas and original artefacts found…
Oldest known remains of an Århusian Viking, Vikingemuseet Aarhus Denmark
Oldest known remains of an Århusianer - a headless Viking skeleton (presumed murdered). 9th Century. Displayed in Aros Of The Viking Age exhibition (Aros = today's Århus, Jutland = Denmark's second-largest city) at Vikingemuseet Århus on site of…
Comb fragments at Aros in the Viking Age exhibition on excavation site Århus Denmark
Comb fragments at 'Aros in the Viking Age' exhibition on excavation site underneath Nordea Bank in Århus Denmark. Aros = Århus. Replicas and original artefacts from everyday life in Viking Århus.
Stairway to the past - entrance to Vikingemuseet Århus Denmark
Entrance to Vikingemuseet, underneath Nordea bank in centre of Århus, Denmark. A three-metre descent by stairs into original Viking Aros (Århus) town - as you walk down past the original layers of earth, stone and human debris, years on the steps…
Reconstruction of a tenth-century 'lady of the house' weaving in pit-house at Vikingemuseet Århus Denmark
'Lady of the house' in thenth-century clothes weaving wool and linen in reconstructed pit-house on site of original pit-house. Reconstruction at excavation site now Vikingemuseet Århus, underneath Nordea Bank in city centre Århus Denmark. Original…
Reconstructed pit-house on original excavation site, Århus Denmark
Reconstructed pit-house at excavation site, now Vikingemuseet Århus, three metres underneath Nordea Bank in the centre of Århus Denmark. Original pit-house now at Moesgaard Museum Århus Denmark. Reconstruction includes 'lady of the house' weaving.…
Copy of 'Hørningstenen' (DR 58) Vikingemuseet Århus Denmark
Copy of Hørningstenen runestone at Vikingemuseet (Viking Museum) Århus Denmark www.vikingemuseet.dk. Original at Moesgård Museum Århus www.moesgaardmuseum.dk. Original discovered 1849 by a farmer on his land between Jelling…
Audio: Hanna Marti and Mara Winter Performing the Eddic Poem 'Helreið Brynhildar'
A performance of the Eddic Poem 'Helreið Brynhildar' (Brynhild's Ride to Hel) by the ensemble Moirai (Hanna Marti vocals, and Mara Winter, flute and vocals). Moirai, founded in Reykjavik in 2015,specializes in the music of the Early and High…
Audio: Instrumental opening to Hanna Marti's Performance of 'Vǫluspá'
Instrumental opening to a performance of the Eddic Poem 'Vǫluspá (Brynhild's Ride to Hel) by Hanna Marti of the ensemble Moirai (Hanna Marti vocals, and Mara Winter, flute and vocals). Moirai, founded in Reykjavik in 2015, specializes in the…
Audio: Extract of a Performance of 'Grípisspá' (Grípir's Prophecy) by Hanna Marti and Mara Winter
Short clip of a performance of 'Grípisspá' (Grípir's Prophecy) by the ensemble Moirai (Hanna Marti vocals, and Mara Winter, flute and vocals). Moirai, founded in Reykjavik in 2015,specializes in the music of the Early and High…
Images of the eleventh- or twelfth-century Annaholty Bog Shoe
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 the Annaholty Bog Shoe by John Nicholl
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…
Old Norse-Icelandic Grammar: A basic course
A short introduction to Old Norse-Icelandic grammar.
Vikings - Ragnar's funeral song (based on Hávamál)
Ragnar Lothbrok's funeral song (Series 3, Episode 10 of History's 'Vikings'). Music written and performed by the contributor Einar Selvik, with the lyrics based on Hávamál.
Video: Vikings suite, Trevor Morris and Einar Selvik (FMF 2015: International TV Series Gala)
The song was composed for History's Vikings series, and was composed by Trevor Morris and Einar Selvik, who performs the piece here at the Krakow Film Music Festival. The lyrics are taken from the Eddic poem Völuspá and the skaldic poem…
Vikings Season 4 Episode 6 Song - performed by Einar Selvik
Song from History's Vikings series (Season 4 Episode 6) composed and performed by Einar Selvik. It combines lyrics from poems inRagnars saga loðbrókar ok sona hans and Egil Skallagrimsson's Höfuðlausn from Egils saga.More…
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…