Norse and Viking Ramblings

The following is an extract from something I am working on at the moment - an analysis of the killing of Earl Rǫgnvaldr of Orkney, as report...

It's good to be in Norway again on Norse and Viking business and today I had a free day in Oslo. I'm almost ashamed to say that des...

  On academic business in London the other day, I chanced upon Tooley Street, just near London Bridge Underground station. Now, I've kno...

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...