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 …
Baltic Pipe reveals thousands of 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 …
Moesgaard Viking Moot 2021 has been Canceled
It is with a heavy heart that I have to inform you that for the second year in a row has the Moesgaard Viking Moot been canceled due to the …
Is Valheim based on real Viking Culture?
Today we are going to take a look at the highly anticipated Viking survival game Valheim that entered early access on the 2nd of February 2021 and took the community …
The Galloway hoard receives a million-dollar grant
The Galloway hoard that was discovered in 2014 by a metal detectorist in a field in Dumfries and Galloway and acquired by the National Museums of Scotland (NMS) in 2017 …