Category Archives: Norse History & Archaeology
Why A New NTNU Study Makes Central Norway Look Less Peripheral In The Early Viking Economy
Central Norway can look peripheral when Viking trade is mapped through famous urban centres such as Ribe, Hedeby, Birka and Kaupang. A new 2026 study from the NTNU University Museum argues that this perspective overlooks much of how the early … 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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Vikingmania Exhibit and Modern Viking Myths
Vikingmania Exhibit analysis of modern Viking images, museum evidence, pop-culture types, and where cautious history resists cliché. 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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Why Fyrkat’s 16 Longhouses Still Matter To Harald Bluetooth’s Royal Experiment
The circular rampart at Fyrkat usually dominates photographs of Harald Bluetooth’s fortress near Hobro. Yet the 16 longhouses that once filled the enclosure may tell an even more revealing story about what the Danish king tried to accomplish around AD … Continue reading
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Why New Tree-Ring Research Could Complicate The Exact 1021 Viking Date In America
The year AD 1021 has become one of the most memorable dates in Viking archaeology. A 2021 Nature study used a sharp radiocarbon increase linked to a cosmic event in AD 993 to date three pieces of wood from L’Anse … Continue reading
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Why The Salme Ship Burials Keep Moving The Viking Age Before 793
The raid on Lindisfarne in AD 793 still supplies one of history’s most familiar dates. Generations of textbooks have used the attack on the Northumbrian monastery as a convenient starting point for the Viking Age. The two ship burials at … Continue reading
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Jon K. Lauck And Scandinavian Heritage Work
How Jon K. Lauck’s Augustana role connects regional archives, Midwestern history, and Scandinavian Heritage without overstating archaeology. Continue reading
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Heavener Runestone Controversy And Norse Claims
Heavener Runestone controversy analysis weighing Oklahoma lore, runic readings, archaeological gaps, and cautious Norse history. Continue reading
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