To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Viking Empires is a definitive new history of five hundred years of Viking ...

although one of the Icelandic sagas—narratives of Norse history and legends written in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries—includes sailing directions from Norway to Greenland that rely on ...

So for example, the Viking word for deer is “djúr” and village is ‘bȳ’ - together making “Derby”. There we go - the history of the Norse people in a matter of minutes. How enjoyable ...

Evidence for the Vikings in Wales is sparse ... merchant laird's house known as Tankerness House. Displays tell the history of the islands over the past 5,000 years with exhibits of international ...

An 800-year-old Norse story about a military raid has been verified by analysis of ancient DNA. Sverris Saga is one of the Kings’ sagas – a series of Old Norse tales which tell the lives of Nordic ...

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A landmark new history of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, this volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to a unique and celebrated body of medieval writing. Chapters by internationally recognized ...