Norse and Viking Ramblings

In a blog post last year , I questioned whether the meat of the polar bear was especially edible. Well, travel is educational and I got so...

My recent visit to the Westfjords, and to Hrafnseyri in particular, sent me back to re-read Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar . A relatively ...

Although the Westfjords (Vestfirðir) of Iceland are sparsely populated nowadays, they do figure quite largely in a variety of Old Icelandi...

As regular readers of this blog know, I quite often go to academic conferences in the Viking diaspora and usually manage to stay on for a ...

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 ...