Norse and Viking Ramblings

Polar bear in the Svalbard Museum, Longyearbyen I promised to return to the topic of polar bears and my memory was jogged by the news,...

I am a serial migrant. Twice in my life I have made the move to a new country (not including shorter stays of a few years in yet other cou...

My excellent friend the Snow Queen (I call her that for reasons you may or may not be able to work out) has written about our arctic adve...

The Viqueen, I can report, is beyond excited at her upcoming trip to extremely northern latitudes in Norway in a couple of days' time....

Nikolai Astrup St. Hansbål ved Jølstervatnet Wikimedia Commons In London on Norse and Viking business yesterday, I took a bit of time ...

Britannia Designs, Dartmouth Despite being the world's greatest landlubber, I have always loved the Met Office shipping forecast ,...

Norse and Viking ramblings took me to Denmark earlier this week, specifically to north-east Fyn and the small but picturesque town of Kert...