Harald Hardrada: The Viking Who Fought in Iraq, Russia, and England
Introduction – the Decline of the Viking Raids In the middle decades of the 11th century, the Vikings had reached the twilight of their raiding…
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History of the Normans: Origins, Military, and Culture
Oddly and quite disappointingly, the legacy of the Normans in England has sometimes been vilified on account of them being foreigners and ‘French’ who supposedly…
Vikings May Have Inadvertently Aided The Irish To Reverse Their Population Decline
According to recent research conducted by the Queen’s University Belfast’s School of Natural and Built Environment, the population of Ireland was possibly in decline for…
Did the Irish reach the New World before the Vikings and Columbus?
We should start off by simply stating – Christopher Columbus was not the first European to reach the Americas. The honor is commonly believed to…
Researchers come across multiple Viking ship burials in north Iceland
On 13th June, Icelandic archaeologists (state sponsored) working at a large burial site in Eyjafjörður fjord, in northern part of Iceland, came across the remnants…
The loss of beer-making capacity might have deterred the power of Viking warlords
Back in 2014, Davide Zori, the field director for the Mosfell Archaeological Project, had shed light into the intrinsic relationship between a Viking chieftain and…
Viking warriors were buried with board games for recreational ‘diversion’ in the afterlife
By early 9th century, the Orkney Islands, an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, pretty much became the headquarters for pirate raids and expeditions…
Animated video does a nifty job of debunking the popular Viking myths
When it comes to the scope of Vikings, there has always been a tendency to mash up historicity with popular romanticizing of these Norsemen. And…
Viking ‘thing’ parliament site possibly discovered in the Isle of Bute, Scotland
Taking the etymological path, the seemingly pedestrian term ‘thing’ actually had quite an illustrious origin – with the Old English term þing actually meaning ‘assembly’ or…
Archaeologists may have identified a second Viking settlement in North America
Contrary to our high school history books, Christopher Columbus was (probably) not the first European to reach the Americas. The honor is commonly believed to…
