Norse and Viking Ramblings

It is the feast day today of Óláfr  Haraldsson, warrior, king, saint and eventually  rex perpetuus Norvegiae , killed in 1030 at the battle...

Some specialists are a wee bit sniffy, I'm told, about the Jorvik Viking Centre , but I've always thought it's rather a good th...

There is a veritable flurry of Viking ship reconstructions and launchings going on at the moment, no doubt inspired by the very successful ...

One only of several reasons why I haven't been blogging much is that I've been doing too much Norse and Viking rambling. In April, ...

A few 'tweets' from a 'tweep' whom I follow (god, the terminology) reminded me that I failed to add a blog about my trip t...

Like all good teachers (I hope), I don't have any real favourites among my Norse and Viking rambling locations - from Newfoundland to E...

A little booklet I picked up on the Isle of Man provides five different popular 'myths' about the origins of the tailless, or nearl...