I can`t wait until the third of March. Why? Because of this trailer for the series about Vikings on History Channel: Vikings are coming – the trailer It`s very short and it only shows Vikings running around with axes and swords – the Viking myth, if you like – but there was one …
I was going to make a post about Viking movies – the good, the bad and the ugly (most of them are in the latter category, unfortunately) – when I came over this amazing run-through of every Viking movie ever made. Check out the list and read all the comments. They were very thorough! Here …
I must confess to a youth as a stamp collector (yes, I did spend hours in the dark closet, trying to find out if a stamp was florescent or not) and when the Oseberg Viking ship project (I`ve written about them in an earlier blog post) started posting pictures of stamps with the Oseberg ship …
AiramLebasic (*hugs*) sent me this very interesting article from National Geographic about how they`ve found a Viking settlement on Baffin Island. It`s around 50 years since they discovered the first proof that Icelandic sagas about the exploits of Leif Eriksson were correct: In the 1960s two Norwegian researchers, Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad, discovered and excavated the …
I mentioned in an earlier post that I would write about myths about the Vikings. One of the biggest myths is that the Vikings were dirty and unwashed. Everything is relative, of course, and compared to people of today who shower every day and use tons of beauty products, they may seem rather poorly groomed. …
I love the Danish cartoonists Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler who draw cartoons under the pen name WuMo. More often than not they are way out of line but I suppose that`s one of the things I love about them. They`ve made quite a few cartoons about Vikings and I used one a couple of …
Mama_Lovis gave me an interesting article where five myths about Vikings are discussed. I`ll come back to the other four myths but will deal with the one about what Vikings looked like first. Tall, muscular and blond or redheads I`m sure it`s no surprise that Vikings were tall (though not entirely as tall as the …
I found this incredibly interesting article which links the current good economy in Scandinavia all the way back to the Vikings. No, we do not still live off the gold and silver stolen from churches and monasteries by hordes of Vikings back in the days. The reason for our current high GNP is apparently the …
In 1903 a farmer close to the Norwegian city of Tønsberg – a large city in the Viking age – stumbled over part of a Viking ship from around 834. The ship was used in a burial and was almost in one piece when it was found. Two women were buried there and speculations have …
Yes, yes, I`m married and not looking for anything on the side but you watch this and tell me that the Viking throwing axes here isn`t making your heart beat an extra beat: Now you`re probably wondering what this silliness is – why are all these Americans going to Norway? This is a Norwegian feel-good …