Chapter 24 has now been posted! Read it here.
Viking Age
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. …
Sooooo in 15 minutes the game between Denmark and Germany will start (yes, we`re talking about football) – a game that will determine if Denmark will advance in the Euro cup, currently being played in Poland and Ukraine. Sweden is already out of the cup so Denmark is the last Nordic country left. I`m biting …
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 …
Archaeologists have found a few Viking ships either used in burials or sunk in the fjords to stop enemy attacks. These ships can be seen for instance here in Oslo, Norway: The Vikingshipmuseum in Oslo or here: http://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/
Copies of the ships in these museums have been made and are being made. I`ve visited several of them and they are truly lovely. But what archaeologists ask themselves is whether these ships are what the Vikings truly did use. One can`t help wondering if they didn`t use the scrappy ones for burials and to stop enemy attack. Maybe the truly great Viking ships will never be found?
Here are a couple of old ones and copies of old ones. I`ve picked different sizes. The long, narrow ones are called Longships.
It`s probably hard to imagine the Longhouses many Vikings lived in if you`ve never been in one (or rather, a remake of one). I found a couple of pictures to help your imagination when you`re reading my Viking related stories. The houses were fairly large. The whole family and their animals lived there together so …
I`ve had several people ask me what kind of clothes Vikings wore so I figured I would post a few pictures. Remember that the Viking age lasted about 300 years and that Vikings lived in an area from Russia to New Foundland and Greenland to Istanbul. Variations in how they dressed were huge.
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A/N: I woke up to a small shock this week when my story “Let Women Vote” was deleted from Fanfiction dot net because they claimed it broke the rules. I didn`t understand anything because that story is not about sex or violence at all but a couple of hours later the story was restored. Apparently …