Viking TV Series

If you love the epic soundtracks heard on the 'Vikings' TV series, you should definitely check out some of the musical groups (such as Wardruna) listed at the bottom of this article. Enjoy! Music and Poetry             As anyone acquainted with Viking lore knows, the Norse placed great importance...

Floki of the Ravens and the Colonization of Iceland             “Floki, the son of Vilgerd, was the name of a man, a great Viking,” the Landnámabók (The Book of Settlements) reads.1 We do not know any of Floki’s back-story, but when we meet him he is leading a single ship...

Ivar the Boneless ...and the Viking Conquest of England Ivar the Boneless was leading elite crews of Vikings against the Irish when news reached him that King Aelle of Northumbria had cast Ragnar Lothbrok into a pit of vipers.  The skalds tell us that Ivar quietly demanded the details of...

Shield Maidens: Did the Vikings Have Women Warriors?             Near Birka, Sweden in 1880, the burial mound of a Viking leader was discovered, complete with a magnificent array of weapons and the remains of two sacrificed horses.  In 2017, the remains of the “Birka Warrior” were reexamined; and the suspicions...

Check out the Viking Ship Gokstadfæring on Display! Interested to see a detailed replica of a Gokstadfæring? You can when you visit the Danish Canadian Museum in Alberta Canada! The Freydis Joanna Viking Ship and Naust is part of the museum’s permanent collection, just waiting to be discovered by visitors...

More than 2,000 swords have been found so far from the viking age (around 800 AD - 1050 AD). However, unlike most of the swords that were made for battle, recent discoveries through the use of neutron scans have proven that some of these swords may have been purely created for...