Unfortunately, there has never been found a body that has been so well preserved that the skin is intact. Unless we are lucky enough to find a frozen tattooed Viking …
Vikings Sailed With Their Cats Across Europe
In Norse mythology the cat has always had its place, for instance, the Goddess Freya had two cats who pulled her chariot, or in the saga of Thor’s Journey to …
The Vikings Grew Hemp 1300 years ago
Long lost samples of pollen taken from bogs in the wetlands around Sosteli by a group of Norwegian and Danish archaeologists in the 1940s and 50s, has finally seen the …
The Viking Lunar Calendar
The Vikings did not have four seasons as we do today, they only had two seasons, summer and winter. The year was also not divided into months as most countries …
The Viking Age Began in Denmark
The Viking age is officially dated to start at the end of the 8 century, or in other words on June 8, 793 when the Norwegian Vikings landed in Northumbria …