VIKING GREAT ARMY: ARCHAEOLOGISTS START SEARCH FOR VIKING AGE CAMP
A dig is taking place in Northumberland with hopes of finding a camp belonging to the Viking Great Army...
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Livros Vikings
- Sep 21, 2022
- 5 min
MORE FARMERS THAN FIGHTERS: THE VIKING AGE LIFE
The vikings left an indelible mark on history, particularly European history, as they raided, looted, pillaged, and conquered...
Livros Vikings
- Sep 19, 2022
- 15 min
VIKING WOMEN: THE ORIGINS OF THEY TREMENDOUS POWER
Cloth from Viking and medieval archaeological sites shows that women literally made the money in the North Atlantic...
Livros Vikings
- Sep 13, 2022
- 2 min
AND AFTER ALL, WHO WERE HÚSKARL AND HÚSKONA DURING THE VIKING AGE?
The “húskarl” (masculine noun, meaning “man of the house")and his wife the "húskona"...
Livros Vikings
- Aug 30, 2022
- 4 min
ICELAND’S ANCIENT CAVES REVEAL THE ISLAND’S VIKING EARLY HISTORY
Iceland’s early viking settlers built extensive cave systems to survive...
Livros Vikings
- Aug 10, 2022
- 2 min
DONE! HEREFORDSHIRE VIKING HOARD TO 'COME HOME' AFTER FUNDRAISER
A hoard of Viking treasure has been bought by a council's museum service...
Livros Vikings
- Aug 8, 2022
- 2 min
A VIKING'S PENDANT IS FOUND NEAR KING'S LYNN, ENGLAND
A St Edmund memorial penny worn by a Viking to "advertise his Christianity" has been found by a metal detectorist...
Livros Vikings
- Aug 4, 2022
- 4 min
THE VIKING AGE'S DERRYNAFLAN HOARD
One of the most exciting archaeological finds in the history of Irish art was unearthed on Tipperary's Derrynaflan Island by a man and...
Livros Vikings
- Jul 14, 2022
- 5 min
THE LOST VIKING VILLAGE OF KAUPANG
Kaupang was a harbor town supposedly located within the larger district known in the literature as “Skiringssal”...
Livros Vikings
- Jul 6, 2022
- 2 min
GREENLANDICS FROM VIKING AGES TRADED WALRUS IVORY WITH UKRAINE
Historians have long believed that walrus ivory traded throughout Ukraine and Russia during the Middle Ages came from the Barents Sea...
Livros Vikings
- Jun 27, 2022
- 8 min
IN JUNE OF 793AD, THE VIKINGS ATTACKED LINDISFARNE, KNOW HOW IT WAS
One such day was the 8 June, 793. That was the day the Vikings attacked the monastery at Lindisfarne...
Livros Vikings
- Jun 24, 2022
- 2 min
GOVERNMENT U-TURN SAVES NEW VIKING AGE MUSEUM, WILL IT BE?
Norway's Viking ships can finally look forward to an improved home following the government's change of heart on funding...
Livros Vikings
- Jun 17, 2022
- 2 min
A 1,200-YEAR-OLD RUNESTONE WAS DISCOVERED DURING A KITCHEN RENOVATION
Mosekærstenen is the 44th runestone found in the area around Randers, and the National Museum must now appraise the stone to determine ho...
Livros Vikings
- Jun 1, 2022
- 8 min
SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST SPECTACULAR VIKING ARTEFACTS
The vikings were influenced by cultures before and informed those after, finding an artefact that genuinely adds to the picture of the Vi...
Livros Vikings
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
OSLO’S FAMOUS VIKING SHIPS AT RISK AS DEMANDS BUDGET CUTS
Ten years ago, experts concluded that the three world-famous Viking ships on display at Oslo’s Viking Ship Museum needed a new home...
Livros Vikings
- May 16, 2022
- 5 min
THE LESSER-KNOWN VIKING CRUSADE
The first European king to set sail for the Holy land was from Norway, Sigurd I, in the summer of 1110 a.C....
Livros Vikings
- Apr 19, 2022
- 10 min
THE REAL-HISTORY OF THE FAMOUS VIKING SIEGES OF PARIS
Ninth-century France proved very lucrative for the Vikings. It was a land marred by civil war and bad harvests, and the Norsemen took adv...
Livros Vikings
- Apr 15, 2022
- 3 min
3 FIERCE FEMALE VIKING WARRIORS THAT YOU WOULDN’T WANT TO MESS WITH
There had been debates among historians on whether real female Viking warriors who fought, raided, and ransacked just as fiercely as men...
Livros Vikings
- Apr 8, 2022
- 4 min
THE PERFECTLY PRESERVED VIKING WEAVER’S SWORD
The Weaver’s Sword is a Viking artefact, believed to date to the late 11th century...
Livros Vikings
- Mar 28, 2022
- 3 min
£776,250 FUNDRAISER LAUNCHED TO BRING VIKING EARLY MEDIEVAL TREASURE BACK HOME
A campaign has been launched to raise £776,250 to bring a history-changing Viking hoard that was discovered in a field near the south Shr...
Livros Vikings
- Mar 23, 2022
- 5 min
THE VARANGIAN GUARD, THE VIKINGS WHO SERVED AS THE BYZANTINE EMPEROR’S PERSONAL ARMY
Durante séculos, os vikings viajaram de toda a Escandinávia para se juntar à elite da Guarda Varangiana que protegia o imperador romano o...
Livros Vikings
- Mar 20, 2022
- 6 min
WHAT THE LAST VIKING RAID ON WALES CAN TELL US ABOUT THEIR MEDIEVAL HISTORY
On 28th October, 1209, the inhabitants of the Welsh borough of Llanfaes at the mouth of the Menai Strait would have seen six longships...
Livros Vikings
- Mar 18, 2022
- 1 min
DEN NORSKE LANDSLOV
Antes e depois da Era Viking (Século IX ao XI) os nórdicos sempre tiveram a sua reputação guerreira como símbolos de força, disciplina...
Livros Vikings
- Mar 15, 2022
- 2 min
VIKING ARTEFACTS FOUND IN BEBINGTON COULD LEAD TO ANSWERS ABOUT HISTORIC EVENTS
Viking artefacts were found in Bebington, Merseyside which will be examined to uncover new insights into where they came from...
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