I`m still on vacation and just came back to Denmark from a nice trip to Poland where we visited Poznan (don`t go there) and Gdansk (a very beautiful city). But what do you know – Mama Lovis sent me a picture of a Viking festival taking place very close to our cabin. Of course, I …
Elbly showed me this very interesting clip and I`ll share it with you: Legendary Viking town unearthed July 2, 2012 – 05:00 The hidden centre of power for the first Danish kings may well have popped up from the soil in Northern Germany. Archaeologists have surprisingly found some 200 houses and piles of weapons. By: …
I just have to share this – and I`m not bragging since I`m not Norwegian. I only have the pleasure of living among them! Cute, right?
My author name, Thyra Dane, comes from Thyra Danebod, who is one of my main historical heroes. I suppose she`s my hero because she is one of few women mentioned by name in the Viking age. We know she existed because her husband, King Gorm the Old, made a rune stone with her name on …
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Mama_Lovis posted this on Twitter and I just had to repost it here:
If you could see me you would see me jumping up and down. From the Alexander Skarsgård Library Forum I picked up this tidbit: http://www.alexanderskarsgardlibrary.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=1833&p=78793#p78793 The network has ordered a full season of the medieval-set drama “Vikings” from “The Tudors” and “Elizabeth” writer Michael Hirst, to debut in summer 2013. History has ordered its first scripted …
Yggdrasil is a huge ash-tree with branches so long they go into the sky and three long roots that end in three different worlds. One root ends up in Åsgård and the norner are living by a well close to that root. The three norner, called Urd, Verdande and Skuld, are the goddesses of the …
I found this map in a school book and figured that it would be interesting for other people than school children. It`s a map of where the Vikings went and which Vikings went where. Like all things for children, this is simplified, but it`s still interesting. As you can see, Vikings didn`t just go places. …
It seems I`m not the only one who is fascinated with the Viking age. Viking ship are still being built so many places in Scandinavia. One project I find especially interesting is this one in Tønsberg, Norway. They are building a copy of the Oseberg ship. The last time they tried to do that the …