Another interesting piece of wood with runic inscriptions has been found at the Medieval Park in Oslo. It was found in the same layer as the knife handle in the …
Huge longhouse discovered near the Viking ship burial at Gjellestad in Norway
In 2018, the remains of a Viking ship and the first traces of an old settlement were discovered at Gjellestad outside Halden. This was the first time in more than …
Four graves with rare objects dating back to the Viking Age were found in eastern Iceland
In 2021, four graves dating back to the settlement period of Iceland were found during archeological excavations on the farm Fjörður by Seyðisfjörður in eastern Iceland. The findings were quite …
Unique runic inscriptions on bone and wood discovered during the excavations in the Medieval Park in Oslo
Just before Yule, the archaeologists Solveig Thorkildsen and Ingeborg Hornkjøl from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU), found a rune bone and a rune stick a few days …
Was this unique gold earring given as payment by the Emperor of the Byzantine Empire to one of his Varangian guards during the 11th century?
April 30, 2021, was a special day for Frants Fugl Vestergaard who made a discovery of a lifetime on a newly plowed field at Bøvling in the western part of …
Nordic clinker boat traditions have been included on UNESCO’s World Heritage List as an important living cultural heritage, which must be safeguarded and preserved for future generations
The day has finally arrived where the ancient method of building clinker boats in northern Europe has been acknowledged by the international society as a part of the intangible cultural …
The Viking bones that were found in a misplaced box turned out to be from the famous Mammen grave
It is not every day that someone finds a box full of human remains, but that was exactly what happened recently when a researcher from the National Museum of Denmark …
Origin of the International Viking Day, May 8
It seems that every year, on May 8, images with the text Happy International Viking day are shared across all of the social media platforms. But what is the origin …
Origin of the Vegvisir Symbol
What is the origin of the Vegvisir symbol (Icelandic: Vegvísir ), and how old is it? Can we find it depicted in the ancient caves of Scandinavia, in manuscripts, or …
Baltic Pipe reveals thousands of Viking artifacts
Right now The Baltic Pipeline is eating its way through the ancient soil of Denmark, so it can feed the rest of Europe with cheap gas from Russia. There are …