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...
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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 12, 2022
- 1 min
A NEW VIKING SHIP WAS DISCOVERED IN NORWAY
The survey has now revealed a boat grave in addition to several burial mounds. The boat measures between 8 to 9 metres and was placed in....
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 24, 2022
- 3 min
A VIKING SETTLEMENT MYSTERIOUSLY VANISHED. NOW, WE HAVE AN ANSWER
Scientists pinpoint drought as a likely cause for the abandonment of Greenland's Norse communities...
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...
Livros Vikings
- Mar 13, 2022
- 4 min
VIKING WARRIORS WERE ACTUALLY OBSESSED WITH PERSONAL HYGIENE?
The Vikings took great care of their personal hygiene and the English men found this odd and repulsive.Contrary, the English (as ...
Livros Vikings
- Mar 11, 2022
- 5 min
THE HISTORY OF THE VIKINGS IN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND
An app developed by academics at the University of Liverpool aims to change that, and to reveal how important Lancashire and Lakeland were..
Livros Vikings
- Feb 24, 2022
- 2 min
NEW STUDY SHOWS VIKING BATTLE TOOK PLACE IN BEBINGTON
Scientists from the University of Nottingham are examining the chemical fingerprint of iron weapons from the Viking age which was used du...
Livros Vikings
- Feb 18, 2022
- 2 min
SCIENTISTS ARE SEARCHING FOR A TOWN SWALLOWED UP BY THE SEA 600 YEARS AGO
Ravenser Odd, on the East Yorkshire coast, was one of many settlements lost to coastal erosion...
Livros Vikings
- Feb 2, 2022
- 2 min
NORTHAMPTON DEBUT FOR VIKING EXHIBITION WITH REPLICA LONGBOAT
Valhalla at Northampton Museum & Art Gallery will explore Viking attitudes to life and death through 1,000-year-old artefacts...
Livros Vikings
- Jan 28, 2022
- 1 min
EACH OF THE REGIN'S BLESSING IS UNIQUE
Como cada heiðinn (praticante do Forn Siðr) tem uma vida diferente, os aprendizados e bênçãos serão vivenciados de forma distinta por cad...
Livros Vikings
- Jan 25, 2022
- 3 min
UNESCO LISTS VIKING-ERA WOODEN SAILBOATS ON HERITAGE LIST
In December, the UN’s culture agency added Nordic “clinker boats” to its list of traditions that represent the Intangible Cultural Herita...
Livros Vikings
- Jan 19, 2022
- 3 min
STUNNING GALLOWAY HOARD CROSS 'WORN SHORTLY BEFORE IT WAS BURIED' 1,100 YEARS AGO
Uma grande cruz de prata e ouro da era viking encontrada em Galloway, Escócia, pode ter sido usada por uma figura de elite, como um bispo...
Livros Vikings
- Jan 7, 2022
- 1 min
IN FORN SIÐR MYSTIFYING IS NOT NECESSARY
In Forn Siðr the genuine willingness to honor the Regin and to study the Nordic faith and culture are the foundational steps...
Livros Vikings
- Jan 3, 2022
- 3 min
SILVER AND SWORDS: NEW LIGHT CAST ON THE ISLE OF MAN'S VIKING ERA
Vikings are thought to have arrived on the Isle of Man in the early 800s, first trading and then settling on the island...
Livros Vikings
- Dec 29, 2021
- 4 min
TRAVEL ROUTES AND LANDING PLACES OF VIKINGS IN SCOTLAND TO BE MAPPED LIKE NEVER BEFORE
The harbours, landing places and travel routes used by Vikings in Scotland are to be investigated in a major new research project...
Livros Vikings
- Dec 28, 2021
- 4 min
Details about the research that validate the "blood eagle" viking torture as anatomically possible
The 'Blood Eagle' is said to have been reserved for only the most hated enemies of the notorious Scandinavian raiders who lived from the...
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