Viking History

Holmgang
Holmgang (Old Norse and Modern Icelandic: hólmganga; Swedish: holmgång) was a form of dueling practiced in the Viking Age and early Scandinavian Middle Ages. It was a socially accepted way...

Jomsborg
Jomsborg was a mythical Viking semi-legendary fortress south of the Baltic Sea (probably in the vicinity of present-day Pomerania), which existed from 960 to 1043 A.D. Its inhabitants were known...

Great Heathen Army
The Great Heathen Army was a Viking army that plundered and conquered much of England in the late ninth century. Although, unlike many other Scandinavian formations operating at the time,...
Great Heathen Army
The Great Heathen Army was a Viking army that plundered and conquered much of England in the late ninth century....

Halfdan Ragnarsson
Halfdan Ragnarsson (d. 877) was a Norse warlord during the Viking Age and was one of the sons of Ragnar Lothbrok, who along with his brothers Ubbe and Ivar the Boneless,...
Halfdan Ragnarsson
Halfdan Ragnarsson (d. 877) was a Norse warlord during the Viking Age and was one of the sons of Ragnar Lothbrok,...

Odinism
Odinism is a Germanic neo-pagan reconstructionist religious organization, which proclaims the practice of a form of neo-paganism whose supreme deity of the Norse pantheon is Odin, focused on Norse paganism, Germanic...

Seidr
Seidr (Old Norse: seiðr) is type of ancient sorcery or witchcraft that was practiced by the pagan Norsemen. The expression can also be used to refer to reconstructions of modern...

Viking Art
Art in the Viking Age is a collective term for the artistic styles that flourished in the Nordic countries and the areas of northern Europe where the Vikings settled from...
Viking Art
Art in the Viking Age is a collective term for the artistic styles that flourished in the Nordic countries and...

Kattegat
Kattegat, is a maritime space comprising several straits in the south and a vast bay in the north, extending between Denmark and Sweden, more precisely between the Danish peninsula of...