Viking History

holmgang

Holmgang

Oliver C

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...

Holmgang

Oliver C

Holmgang (Old Norse and Modern Icelandic: hólmganga; Swedish: holmgång) was a form of dueling practiced in the Viking Age and...

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jomsborg

Jomsborg

Oliver C

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...

Jomsborg

Oliver C

Jomsborg was a mythical Viking semi-legendary fortress south of the Baltic Sea (probably in the vicinity of present-day Pomerania), which...

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Great Heathen Army

Oliver C

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

Oliver C

The Great Heathen Army was a Viking army that plundered and conquered much of England in the late ninth century....

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Halfdan Ragnarsson

Oliver C

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

Oliver C

Halfdan Ragnarsson (d. 877) was a Norse warlord during the Viking Age and was one of the sons of Ragnar Lothbrok,...

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Odinism

Odinism

Oliver C

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...

Odinism

Oliver C

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

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Blót

Oliver C

Blót is the Old Norse sacrifice, that is a ritual act dedicated to the gods. The noun blót goes back to the Old Norse verb blóta (cf. Gothic and Old...

Blót

Oliver C

Blót is the Old Norse sacrifice, that is a ritual act dedicated to the gods. The noun blót goes back...

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seidr

Seidr

Oliver C

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...

Seidr

Oliver C

Seidr (Old Norse: seiðr) is type of ancient sorcery or witchcraft that was practiced by the pagan Norsemen. The expression...

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Viking Art

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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

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Art in the Viking Age is a collective term for the artistic styles that flourished in the Nordic countries and...

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kattegat

Kattegat

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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...

Kattegat

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Kattegat, is a maritime space comprising several straits in the south and a vast bay in the north, extending between...

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