Viking women invaders
From USA Today, 20 July 2011: Viking women may have equaled men moving to England in medieval invasions, suggests a…
Category: Viking News
The Viking craze for tooth-filing
From The Guardian, 11 July 2011: Teeth with neat parallel grooves have been found in Viking graves in Sweden, Denmark…
Aerial Surveys of Viking Shipyards on Skye
From the BBC, 5 May 2011: Aerial surveys are being carried out over Skye to help archaeologists investigate a 12th…
Dig to begin at royal Viking estate
From Views and News from Norway, 10 March 2011: The largest archaeological project in Norway in nearly 10 years will…
Replica Viking ship to be built in Norway
Volunteers are aiming to complete and sail a full-scale replica of Norway’s famed Oseberg ship, one of the best-preserved and most…
Vikings revered Stone Age objects
From News & Views from Norway, 2 February 2011: New archaeological findings suggest that the Vikings considered Stone Age objects…
Did the Scots visit Iceland before the Vikings?
From Unreported Heritage News, 23 December 2010: New archaeological discoveries show that Iceland was inhabited around AD 800 – nearly…
Research begins into Manx Viking ancestry
From the BBC, 3 February 2011: Now genealogists from the University of Leicester are using DNA tests to trace Manx…
Viking ‘sunstone’ navigation may be more than a myth
From the New Scientist, 31 Jan 2011: Viking sagas may have been more truthful than we realised. Crystal “sunstones” could…