To see more Viking articles, click here. By Gabriela Peringerová, eng Nick Orsillo A one-of-a-kind discovery has been made by archaeologists from Masaryk University. At the Lány-Břeclav site in the Czech Republic, they found an inscribed animal rib alongside pottery of the Prague type, associated with the Early Slavs. This unique find provides the earliestContinue reading “MU archaeologists reveal oldest writing system among Slavs to be Germanic runes”
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Jafan
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Völsunga saga
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Viking Age Iceland: Leadership
This is Part 7 of our ongoing series about Viking Age Iceland. For centuries, this island country, unique in Medieval Europe, operated with no king, no great lords, no foreign policy, and no defense forces but which developed legal and judicial systems to limit the violence of bloodfeud and protect the rights of freemen. Far out in the North Atlantic, Iceland was where theContinue reading “Viking Age Iceland: Leadership”
Several Erotic Medieval Runic Inscriptions Found in Bergen
To see more Viking articles, click here. BY THORNEWS There have so far been found about 700 runic inscriptions dating back to the 14th century in the Bryggen area in Bergen, Western Norway. Several of the inscriptions have a short and erotic message carved into a flat stick of wood, showing that young men have notContinue reading “Several Erotic Medieval Runic Inscriptions Found in Bergen”