Medieval News

We are back with doing roundups of the medieval news! Let's start with a few recent pieces for fans of all things Norse... [ View th...

This week's roundup finds some stories on how York is promoting its connection to its Viking past, wonderful images of writing on tree b...

This week's news from the medievalverse has Anders Winroth talking about his new book The Age of the Vikings, funding for Newport's ...

This week's news for medievalists features the mystery of how books were being stolen from a medieval monastery's library, and the p...

For our fellow medievalists, here are some of the news and interesting posts that we came across in the last week: [ View the story "...

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The Verge takes a look at some of the interesting work being done by statistical physicists Ralph Kenna and Pádraig Mac Carron on medieva...

For those living in North America who were envious of the British Museum's recent exhibition on Vikings , there is now an exhibition und...

"A team of scent scientists" have developed a new body spray deodorant that promises to give you that medieval warrior smell! Nors...

This month's issue of DUJOUR has a feature interview with Michael Hirst, the creator and writer of the hit TV series Vikings , by Nancy...

The Jorvik Viking Festival in York, England is billing this Saturday as Ragnarok, the Norse-version of the apocalypse. They calculate th...

For decades the experts at the British Museum believed that this item, discovered at a woman's grave from Norway was just a hook used...

A medieval news roundup for the weekend... If you are a fan of Marshall McLuhan or have an interest in the history of printing, this int...

Here are three reports of medieval discoveries from around the world... Newfoundland We know that the Vikings tried to create a settlemen...

Several articles have recently appeared online that talk about the Vikings: Unearthing Viking jewellery Jane Kershaw from University Co...

By Trine Nickelsen Contrary to popular belief, the British did not 'borrow' words and concepts from the Norwegian and Danish Viki...

“To assume that Viking men were ranked above women is to impose modern values on the past, which would be misleading,” cautions Marianne M...

Cannabis was cultivated 1,300 years ago at a farm in Southern Norway The Sosteli farmsted, in Norway's southermmost Vest-Agder Coun...

Greenland’s Viking settlers, the Norse, disappeared suddenly and mysteriously from Greenland about 500 years ago. Natural disasters, climate...

Icelandic sagas and a single archaeological site in Newfoundland document a Viking Period presence of Norse people in the Americas. Now N...