Thor’s hammer part of Viking finds returning to Thetford

A Thor’s hammer and a pottery lamp are among Viking Great Army finds returning to the town where they were discovered. Thousands of Scandinavians formed an army in England to raid and conquer between AD865-878, and Thetford in Norfolk was one of their winter camps. The story of how this led to the town becomingContinue reading “Thor’s hammer part of Viking finds returning to Thetford”

Viking Age Iceland: Warfare

This is 88 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: Warfare”