Viking history
Scandinavian raider chronicles
The history of the Scandinavian seafarers who raided, traded, and settled across Europe from roughly the 8th to 11th centuries.
Viking history encompasses their expansion from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark to places as distant as North America, Constantinople, and Baghdad.
The field examines their shipbuilding, Norse religion, sagas, and lasting influence on language and culture: She's writing her dissertation on Viking history.
- longhousesMulti-family indigenous dwellings
- burial moundsEarthen heaps over graves
- ScandinaviaNordic countries collectively
- Oseberg shipExcavated Norse burial vessel
- rune stonesInscribed Nordic memorial tablets
Thing assemblies · Odin · shieldmaidens · sea raiders · Vinland · Varangian Guard · Norse mythology · Thor · Faroe Islands · archaeological sites · Iceland · trade routes · Valhalla · berserker · shield wall · longship · Greenland · Erik the Red
- Nordic StudiesNorse mythology, Old Norse, Norse gods, sagas, runestones
- Norse StudiesOld Norse, sagas, Icelandic sagas, kennings, Elder Futhark
- NorwayOslo, Bergen, Trondheim, fjord, fjords
- SwedenStockholm, Gothenburg, Malmo, Uppsala, Scania
- history educationhistorian, textbook, primary source, secondary source, lesson plans
- IcelandReykjavik, volcano, volcanoes, geyser, geysers