Author Archives: Leif Haldorsen
Why Greenland’s Newly Found Norse Church Could Redraw The Power Map Around Erik The Red
A skeleton uncovered in southern Greenland has confirmed something archaeologists had suspected for years: a previously unknown Norse church and cemetery once stood at Qinngua near Narsarsuaq, only a short distance from the settlement traditionally associated with Erik the Red. … Continue reading
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Why Govan’s Newly Found Jewelry Workshop Changes The Map Of Pre-Viking Scotland
An unfinished shale finger ring found in the churchyard of Govan Old in Glasgow is adding a new layer to one of Scotland’s most important early medieval power centres. Archaeologists and community volunteers working with Govan Heritage Trust and Clyde … Continue reading
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Why Icelandic Gyrfalcons In Baghdad Reveal A Viking-Age Trade Route Few Maps Show
A new 2026 study has drawn an unlikely line between newly settled Iceland and the court of the Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad: the flight path of rare Arctic falcons. Historians Caitlin Ellis of the University of Oslo and Sam Ottewill-Soulsby … Continue reading
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Björkan Sagas and Norse-Indigenous Kinship
Kwok’s 2026 study of Björkan Sagas reads Johnson’s novel as anti-colonial Vínland fiction, reframing Norse-Indigenous encounter. Continue reading
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Why The Odin Of Lejre’s First Dutch Loan Reopens The North Sea Gods Debate
A silver figurine smaller than two centimetres has travelled from Denmark to the Netherlands for the first time, carrying with it one of the most persistent arguments in Viking-Age archaeology. The object usually called the Odin of Lejre left Lejre … Continue reading
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Norse Greenland Foodways In Recent Finds
Norse Greenland Foodways are being re-read through barley, middens, seals, walrus ivory, fire signals, and drying farm soils. Continue reading
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Goddard Coin And The Maine Norse Enigma Debate
A cautious look at the Goddard Coin, its Norse origin, disputed find context, and what it can and cannot prove about Maine. Continue reading
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Norse Site Preservation In A Warming Arctic
Norse Site Preservation now faces climate loss, law, tourism, and research triage across Greenland, Svalbard, Denmark, Norway, and Ireland. Continue reading
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Norse maritime cultures after Viking Congress
Norse maritime cultures after the 20th Viking Congress: cautious evidence from Scotland, Oslo, Denmark, trade, burial, and ships. Continue reading
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Underwater Archaeological Sites Face New Risk
After 2025 rule changes, underwater archaeological sites face weaker survey triggers, raising cautious questions for Norse maritime heritage. Continue reading
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