Norse and Viking Ramblings

Doorway in Kirkwall photo by Judith Jesch Today is the feast day of Óláfr Haraldsson, king of Norway and saint, who died in battle, killed b...

  Christine Fell in 1965 from a photo kindly provided by Gillian Fellows-Jensen  One of my most treasured possessions is my copy of Sigurður...

  For International Women's Day it is always useful to remind ourselves that, even in the Viking Age, women were approximately half of t...

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...