Tag: Vikings

Scandinavian history & Norse culture: Viking-era longhouses and burial mounds

NordenBladet - Viking-era longhouses and burial mounds are important archaeological artifacts that provide insight into the Viking way of life. Viking-era longhouses and burial mounds...

Denmark: Two Viking-era skeletons reunited in Denmark’s National Museum after a millennium

NordenBladet — Denmark’s National Museum is now the home for the remains of two Viking-era men that were once related, being reunited after a...

Greenland: The Viking period of Greenland

NordenBladet - The Vikings settled in southern and western Greenland about 1,000 years ago. Brattahlid is the best preserved of Old Norse settlements. TRAVEL IN...

Iceland: Hidden caves in Hella are open to public

NordenBladet - Since January 18th, 2020, four of the twelve man-made caves in Hella are open to the public. The Hella caves are ancient;...

Scandinavian history and culture: WHAT were gender roles like during Viking times? What happens...

NordenBladet - What were gender roles like during Viking times? A Norwegian archaeologist Marianne Moen thinks we often misinterpret the past based on our...

EXHAUSTIVE OVERVIEW: who were the ancient Scandinavian origin Vikings and when was the time...

NordenBladet - The Vikings were ancient Scandinavian origin seafarers whose characteristic culture flourished around the 8th until the 11th century (the so called Viking...

Viking is ‘forefather to British royals’? Norwegian-French investigation hopes to reveal that Norwegian Viking...

NordenBladet - A joint Norwegian-French investigation hopes to reveal that Norwegian Viking noble Ganger Hrólf was the same person as Rollo, the first Duke...