Author Archives: Jules William Press

Viking Age Iceland: The Founding of a New Society and the Historical Sources

This 54 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: The Founding of a New Society and the Historical Sources”

Sweden’s lost forest language now has international speakers

To see more Viking articles, click here. A postcard depicting Elfdalian in rune form. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT Written by Lee Roden Why travel to Sweden to learn an ancient Viking language that’s on the brink of dying out? The Local spoke to one of the international students at a new course to find out. ElfdalianContinue reading “Sweden’s lost forest language now has international speakers”

Viking Age Iceland: Feud

This 53 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: Feud”