Several years ago, I found this impressive image on the Internet under the title “Saxon shields” and I have no reason to doubt it, although there are a few features that were not so usual among the Saxon warriors.
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24/02/2022
Uncategorized medieval warfare, Military, Military history, Military topics, Saxon, Saxons, Vikings Leave a comment
Several years ago, I found this impressive image on the Internet under the title “Saxon shields” and I have no reason to doubt it, although there are a few features that were not so usual among the Saxon warriors.
11/10/2021
Uncategorized England, English, Jomsvikings, Jorvik Viking Festival, medieval warfare, Sweden, Valsgärde, Vendel Culture, Viking, Viking Age, Viking history, Viking longship, Vikings, York Leave a comment
Three Viking warriors in a reenactment from the Jorvik Viking Festival (2012).
Reenactors and creators of the helmets, armour, clothing etc, are unknown: kudos to them for their marvelous work.
30/09/2021
Uncategorized Biology, Genetics, Scandinavia, Viking, Viking Age, Viking history, Vikings Leave a comment
Republication from national geographic
Image credit: Wikimedia commons
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In popular imagination, Vikings were robust, flaxen-haired Scandinavian warriors who plundered the coastlines of northern Europe in sleek wooden battleships. But despite ancient sagas that celebrate seafaring adventurers with complex lineages, there remains a persistent, and pernicious, modern myth that Vikings were a distinctive ethnic or regional group of people with a “pure” genetic bloodline. Like the iconic “Viking” helmet, it’s a fiction that arose in the simmering nationalist movements of late 19th-century Europe. Yet it remains celebrated today among various white supremacist groups that use the supposed superiority of the Vikings as a way to justify hate, perpetuating the stereotype along the way.
01/07/2021
Uncategorized Viking Age, Vikings Leave a comment
Republication from /theconversation.com/
Stipendiary Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Oxford
Vikings are often seen as heathen marauders mercilessly targeting Christian churches and killing defenceless monks. But this is only part of their story. The Vikings played a key role in spreading Christianity, too.
Norse mythology has long captured the popular imagination and many today have heard stories about the pagan gods, particularly Odin, Thor and Loki, recently reimagined in Marvel’s comic books and movies. Some now even follow reconstructed versions of these beliefs, known as Ásatrú (the religion of the Aesir).
10/06/2021
Uncategorized Estonia, medieval warfare, Military, Viking, Viking Age, Viking sword, Viking weapons, Vikings Leave a comment
Republication from Norway today
Viking swords in Wikimedia commons
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Scandinavia is an archeological hotspot when it comes to Viking discoveries.
But there’s another Northern European area that has been especially important for Viking finds, too: the Baltic region – and Estonia in particular.