Norse and Viking Ramblings

Shameless self-promotion has not generally been the main purpose of this blog. I've tended to aim for the slightly quirky, or even perso...

In what now seems like a completely other world, less than a year ago I wrote a  blog post listing some recommended Viking reading . If I ha...

Back in the day when this blog was nobbut a baby blog, one of my first posts gave a quick mention to the Odinic obsessions of a certain Jul...

The 29th of this month would have been Terje Spurkland's 72nd birthday. I first encountered him in the academic year of 1980-81, whe...

Here in dismal, grey, snowless Oslo it was a delight to visit the Historical Museum and especially its exhibition called Víkingr . The m...

The church at Orphir. Photo © Judith Jesch As I noted in a festive blog post a few years ago , the Old Norse word jól can refer ei...

Reproduction dice and a gaming piece made by Adam Parsons (c) University of Nottingham CC-BY-4.0 In my previous blog post , I looked ...