To see more Viking articles, click here. An international team led by researchers at the University of Huddersfield has used ancient DNA to rewrite the history of the Orkney islands to show that Orkney actually experienced large-scale immigration during the Early Bronze Age, which replaced much of the local population. The project was a closeContinue reading “Bronze Age women altered genetic landscape of Orkney”
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Viking Age Iceland: Conflict
This 52 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: Conflict”
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Archaeologists find wooden object inscribed with runes
To see more Viking articles, click here. The object was discovered during excavations by the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) during preparatory works for the medieval park in the Old Town of Oslo. The team previously found a falcon figure in the same context layer whilst excavating a waste layer, in which bothContinue reading “Archaeologists find wooden object inscribed with runes”
Viking Age Iceland: Icelandic Feud
This 51 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: Icelandic Feud”