Amongst the heathen Norse, Baldur was regarded as the divine animating force behind the beauty of life at the peak of its strength and energy. Accordingly, his happy youth is the peak of the Norse mythical cycle as a whole, as summer is to the cycle of the year or noontime is to the cycle of the day. His death […]
This Yale lecture series covers the years 284 to 1000, the Early Middle Ages, and is free! You can download the MP3s or watch the videos, or read the transcripts, or put your index fingers on your temples and chant “ohmmmm ohmmmm” and I’ll channel the whole thing to you while I sleep. Lecture 22 covers the Vikings you don’t […]
At a site that was previously excavated and cataloged, an amateur archeologist dug some more and found some incredible treasures, 2000 gold spirals. Sif’s hair, maybe? http://www.thelocal.dk/20150708/danish-archaeologists-make-huge-bronze-age-find
Does this mean something? Yes! It means Read more at The British Museum: Decoding Anglo-Saxon Art
I need this in my house: Source unknown! As soon as I find out where this comes from or who made it, I’ll update this post. Found it! https://www.etsy.com/shop/midgart
If you’re looking to brush up on your use of metals during the Viking age, look no further: http://vikingmetalwork.blogspot.ca/ This website is a treasure trove (pun intended) of amazing information on Viking age metalwork. For example, this is a real mjolnir: This is a forgery: See the difference? No? Read her website to see why!
The only places the Norse could have expected a safe reception was Orkney and Shetland! Well, we’re on our way to Scotland this spring, hopefully things go smoothly. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6212823/Vikings-were-warned-to-avoid-Scotland.html
I discovered something that may turn the beard oil industry against me: Hask hair oils. Disclaimer: I don’t work for Hask or anybody associated with them or their distributors or their mothers or anything at all having anything to do with them. As a man with a beard, I have spent just a hair-more-than-zero-time thinking about how to take care […]
I’m no archaeologist, but often enough I’ll read something related to archaeology and wonder to myself how their conclusions were or were not reached. In this case, here’s an article below that discusses certain links to Vikings in NE Scotland (Aberdeenshire / Moray). The article below goes on to state that the Viking “exploits are more linked to the Northern […]