Norse and Viking Ramblings

Viking ship model in Repton. Photo Judith Jesch This blog started off as a light-hearted romp through some of my interests, mainly to do...

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...