Author Archives: Henrik Dahl
Viking World Course: Norse Heritage Today
A cautious look at the Viking World Course at UMass Boston, linking Fall 2026 class themes with Greenland archaeology and heritage study. Continue reading
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Norse Artifacts And The American Debate Today
Norse Artifacts remain debated in America, but L’Anse aux Meadows and the Maine penny show why context matters more than claims. Continue reading
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Norse Saga Room And Minnesota Heritage Memory
The Norse Saga Room at ASI shows how Swedish craft, Norse myth, and Minnesota ancestry meet through cautious public history in Minneapolis. Continue reading
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Old Norse AI and Manuscript Preservation
Old Norse AI work at the University of Iceland shows how normalisation and HTR aid preservation while leaving human checks essential. Continue reading
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Norse Saga Room And Scandinavian Memory Today
The Norse Saga Room at ASI shows how myth, migration, woodwork, and National Romantic design shaped Scandinavian-American memory. Continue reading
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Galloway Hoard Exhibition: Norse Materials
Galloway Hoard Exhibition reveals how Viking-Age objects in Scotland mixed Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Christian, and long-distance material traditions. Continue reading
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Why A Boat Burial In Chodlik Complicates The Border Between Viking And Slavic Funerary Worlds
A newly excavated grave at Chodlik in eastern Poland looks strikingly familiar to anyone who studies Viking-Age Scandinavia: a dead person associated with what appears to have been a boat. Yet Chodlik was not a Scandinavian settlement. It belonged to … Continue reading
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Norse Heritage Festivals And Public Memory
Norse Heritage Festivals reveal how 2026 events used fire, craft, reenactment, and music to frame Viking memory with care. Continue reading
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Nordic Visual Culture At The Frick Pittsburgh
Nordic Visual Culture at The Frick Pittsburgh showed how home, folklore, craft, and national identity met in a 2025–2026 exhibition. Continue reading
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Swedish Heritage Exhibitions at ASHM Today
Swedish Heritage Exhibitions at ASHM show Viking artifacts, folk weaving, Easter witches, and cautious links between myth and culture. Continue reading
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