Norse and Viking Ramblings

Time flies, and it's been all of three years since I was last in Orkney, so I was very happy to have the opportunity to go again las...

Photo by Brocken Inaglory Wikimedia Commons Just a little footnote to previous posts on this topic... Here in Britain we have suffer...

Heimdall and his nine mothers by W. G. Collingwood 1908 My North American correspondent has alerted me to a news item in which some ...

Since writing my previous blog post , I have been prevented, for a variety of personal reasons, from engaging in any way with the discussion...

The Viking Twittersphere is currently alive with tweets about a new article with the arresting title of 'A female Viking warrior confi...

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...