Category Archives: Literature & Texts
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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Old Norse Mythology in Nordvig’s New Edda
Old Norse Mythology is reassessed through Mathias Nordvig’s 2026 Routledge book, with attention to Eddic texts and cautious reading. Continue reading
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Why Arab Dirhams Found Near Truso Could Map A Viking Trade Route Beyond The Port Itself
Six early medieval Arab silver coins found in a forest near Młynary in northern Poland could change how archaeologists map the Viking-Age trading centre of Truso. The discovery consists of six dirhams and two additional coin fragments, provisionally dated to … Continue reading
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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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Old Norse Mythology Through Primary Texts
Old Norse Mythology is read through primary texts in Mathias Nordvig’s 2026 Routledge book, with cautions about evidence and retelling. Continue reading
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Treasury of Norse Mythology Returns in 2027
Treasury of Norse Mythology returns on February 2, 2027 for ages 8–12, with maps, sidebars, character lists, and a bibliography. Continue reading
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Why Lios Mòr’s Rediscovered Monastery Changes The Pre-Viking Map Of Western Scotland
A newly published archaeological study has transformed Lismore in western Scotland from a monastery known mainly through medieval texts and local tradition into one of the strongest archaeological candidates for a major early Christian centre in the kingdom of Dál … Continue reading
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Why Tiversky Gorodok’s Silver Hoard Reopens The Viking-to-Medieval Baltic Trade Map
A newly revealed silver hoard from Tiversky Gorodok in northwestern Russia contains an archaeological timeline almost four centuries long. Researchers working at the fortified site on the Vuoksi River recovered more than 2 kilograms of silver, including elaborate medallions, chains, … Continue reading
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Vínland narratives and Indigenous Perspectives
Vínland narratives are being reassessed through Indigenous perspectives, recent fiction, saga criticism, and cautious public history. Continue reading
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Norwegian American Sagas and Identity Today
Norwegian American Sagas frame how immigrant memory, Leif Erikson, translation, and recent scholarship shape cautious identity claims. Continue reading
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