Norse and Viking Ramblings

It seems there is still a bit of the old Viking spirit in the residents of the Wirral, who have successfully fought off local government pl...

The National Museum of Denmark has set up what looks like a very useful new blog in which they will report on new finds of runic inscriptio...

The word of the week at the Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum is, most appropriately, jól . Have a good one, one and all!

Among all the devices being tried out in the waters around Orkney to harness the energy of tides and waves, one caught my eye in particular...

Everyone's favourite Vikings, the Lewis playing pieces, are in the news again. There is an article in Medieval Archaeology (which I have...

I've just been given this splendid present, a Viking wine holder (wine bottles fit perfectly, but in the picture I used some jiggery-po...

Every year I take some MA students for a lightning field trip to the Lake District, to look at sculpture, runic inscriptions and place-names...