Author Archives: Jules William Press

Viking Age Iceland: Thórsnes Thing

This 77 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 the famousContinue reading “Viking Age Iceland: Thórsnes Thing”

Seemingly ’empty’ burial mound is hiding a 1,200-year-old Viking ship

By Tom Metcalfe Ground-penetrating radar has revealed the outline of a Viking ship in a mound in southwest Norway that was once thought to be empty. A Viking Age burial mound in Norway long thought to be empty actually holds an incredible artifact: the remains of a ship burial, according to a ground-penetrating radar analysis.The remains,Continue reading “Seemingly ’empty’ burial mound is hiding a 1,200-year-old Viking ship”