Category Archives: Norse History & Archaeology

Norse church Greenland evidence from Qinngua clarifies medieval burial, church power, and cautious links to Icelandic texts. Continue reading →

Viking expeditions are often imagined as the work of experienced warriors who spent much of their adult lives sailing between Scandinavia, Britain, the Baltic and eastern Europe. A new analysis of Swedish Viking-Age runestones suggests a different social pattern. Published … Continue reading →

Norse Church Greenland evidence from Qinngua clarifies burial practice, church power, and cautious links to medieval texts. Continue reading →

Norse artifacts are reassessed through 2026 hoards, textiles, runes, and church finds, with cautious focus on trade, memory, and belief. Continue reading →

For centuries, Scandinavian maritime power has been symbolized by the Viking longship: a light, clinker-built vessel capable of moving rapidly under sail or oar. A remarkably well-preserved wreck outside Häringe, south of Stockholm, shows how radically that tradition changed by … Continue reading →

Norse Church Greenland evidence from Qinngua shows how burial, church building, and elite power shaped medieval Norse practice. Continue reading →

The Sysmä silver hoard reframes Finland’s Viking-Age trade evidence, linking inland deposits with eastern and western silver routes. Continue reading →

Maine Penny evidence points to Norse coinage moving through Indigenous trade networks, not proven Viking settlement in Maine or a colony. Continue reading →

Modern maps make Finland, Sweden, Latvia and Russia look like clearly separated national spaces. Ancient DNA from southwestern Finland tells a different story. A study published in Genome Biology on September 15, 2026 analyzed genome-wide data from 34 ancient individuals … Continue reading →

Vikings in America reconsidered through L’Anse aux Meadows, saga memory, and Tim Machan’s warning about myth. Continue reading →