Life on the Edge of Sea and Fate: Understanding the Viking Age World
To live in the Viking Age was to exist between certainty and chaos. The land was unforgiving, the sea unpredictable, … Read More
To live in the Viking Age was to exist between certainty and chaos. The land was unforgiving, the sea unpredictable, … Read More
In the Viking Age, the most powerful weapon a person could wield wasn’t always an iron axe or a reinforced … Read More
While the longships are the famous symbols of the North, the real power of the Viking Age was forged in … Read More
When the first heavy snows fell over the fjords, the Viking world shrunk to the size of a single room. … Read More
Three Norns sat at the roots of Yggdrasil and wove the threads of human lives. Urd knew the past, Verdandi … Read More
Viking Age Scandinavia was not a lawless wilderness of axes and smoke; it was a society with sturdy norms, public … Read More
It is a bit of a running joke in history that the Vikings were the world’s greatest navigators, yet they … Read More
It’s easy to imagine a Viking warrior staring at the frozen, jagged peaks of Iceland and thinking, “Yeah, there’s definitely … Read More
Norse symbols and Viking traditions are experiencing a renewed surge in popularity, evolving from historical curiosities into modern lifestyle influences. … Read More
Popular culture likes to paint Vikings as reckless gamblers, people who would casually stake land, ships, or even their lives … Read More