The Up Helly A' is a festival celebrated on the 24th day after Christmas in Shetland. The celebrations involve a parade of 1000 guizers led by a Jarl, and culminates in the burning of a galley (an elaborate replica of a Viking ship). The Up Helly A…
Official Website of the Up Helly Aa Festival in Shetland.
The Up Helly A' is a festival celebrated on the 24th day after Christmas in Shetland. The celebrations involve a parade of 1000 guizers led by a Jarl, and culminates in the burning of a…
A new app is coming that will permit visitors to Gamla Uppsala to see the environment as it used to be on an iPad that they can borrow from the museum.
The sports teams of the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada) are called Vikings, more commonly now 'Vikes'. Their mascot is a blond Viking called Thunder with a horned helmet, and their logo is a horned helmet (or a plain V). Their old…
View of the Lofoten Islands painted from a ship in 1913. The runic themed font in the original frame reads 'Your dreaming shores that I saw in this ethereal silence: you never imagined that another thunder than Thor's would reverberate around you…
Valhala Hidromel is a company that produces mead in a traditional way, but far from its origins in Northern Europe. The company is based in Campos do Jordão in Brazil, and its products and website feature plentiful Norse imagery, including Thor's…
Valhalla herb liqueur from Koskenkorva distillery, Ilmajoki, Finland. ’The spirit of Nordic legends.’ ‘The herb shot for real warriors.’ On promotion in Danish supermarket Føtex 2016. Story-telling website http://www.valhallaspirit.com/
Bar and live music venue in Wellington, NZ named Valhalla (Odin's hall in Norse mythology), which is Viking-themed. See their website athttp://www.valhallatavern.com/
Valravn organic stout. ‘Dark as the soil of Funen’. From Bryggeriet Frejdahl.
Valravn organic stout from microbrewery Bryggeriet Frejdahl, Assens, Denmark. Frejdahl brewery established 2015 as part of Bryggeriet Vestfyen (West Funen…