Category Archives: Mythology & Culture
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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Norse Racial Politics and Modern Identity
Norse racial politics shows how myths, symbols, and ancestry claims are debated in U.S. identity culture, scholarship, and Heathen communities. Continue reading
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Why Rome’s “Little England” Coins Reveal A Viking-Age England More Connected To Europe Than We Think
Twenty Anglo-Saxon coins found near the Vatican are changing the way historians picture England during the Viking Age. The coins came from excavations beneath the garden of Palazzo della Rovere in Rome, within the area historically associated with the Schola … 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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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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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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Norse Saga Room, Immigration, And Identity
How the Norse Saga Room links migration, myth, craft, and Scandinavian-American identity through cautious, source-based reading. 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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