Directory of Viking Resources

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Physical evidence of Norse culture of the period c.800 to 1200 A.D, both within Scandinavia and in lands that were raided and colonised by Norse peoples.

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• Art
• Ingstad, Helge
• Runes

Resources in This Category

• Birka and Hovgården

  http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=555
  UNESCO describes this archaeological complex which illustrates the elaborate trading networks of Viking Age Europe.

• Explore a Viking Village

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vikings/village.html
  NOVA Online's video tour of a life-like scale model of Birka, a medieval Viking village that archaeologists excavated near modern-day Stockholm.

• Genetic Survey of Wirral and West Lancashire

  http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~sczsteve/survey.htm
  Professor Steve Harding of Nottingham University heads a team looking for evidence for Viking descendants in this part of Britain.

• Hammer in the North: Mjollnir in Medieval Scandinavia

  http://www.mackaos.com.au/Articles/Mjol.html
  An article with bibliography by Daniel Bray at Sydney University on the proliferation of small metal amulets representing Mjollnir, the magical hammer of the god Thor, in the archaeological record of tenth century Scandinavia.

• Jorvik Viking Centre

  http://www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/
  Built on the site where the York Archaeological Trust found the amazingly well-preserved remains of part of Viking Jorvik (York). A massive range of evidence was recovered and has been used to recreate every last aspect of everyday life.

• Lost Civilizations - Vikings

  http://www.lost-civilizations.net/vikings-isle-man-leif-eriksson.html
  Article provides an introduction to these warriors, also called Norsemen, as well as information about the Isle of Man, and Leif Eriksson.

• Ribe Viking Museum

  http://www.ribesvikinger.dk/
  The museum is located where the first town in Denmark was founded. Includes reconstructions of the market place in 720 and the manor farm in 980.

• The Nibelungs Saga - Its True Core by the Svava

  http://www.badenhausen.net/harz/svava/svava_en.htm
  Site by Rolf Badenhausen arguing that the Old Nordic Theoderic Codices provide evidence of the historical Nibelungs.

• The Rise and Fall of the Vikings and the Little Ice Age

  http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/
  Illustrated, scholarly study by Scott Mandia on the impact of long-term climate changes on the Viking civilization in Greenland and Iceland.

• Viking Bronze

  http://web.comhem.se/vikingbronze/vikingbronze.htm
  Anders Söderberg explores ancient metalcraft and research from mainly an experimental approach. Articles, images, bibliography and links.

• Viking Trail

  http://www.vikingtrail.org/
  The official website for the Viking Trail region of Newfoundland and Labrador, with visitor information for the 1,000 year-old Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows.

• Vikings

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/
  BBC Online presents aspects of the history of the Vikings in the British Isles. Includes dig reports, 3D model of a Viking Age farm at Ribblehead, Yorkshire, and fun approaches for kids.

• Vinland Archeology

  http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/voyage/subset/vinland/archeo.html
  This part of an exhibit from the Smithsonian about the Vikings in the New World covers the discoveries at L'Anse aux Meadows. Includes videos of reconstructions.

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