By Raquel Brandao A shipwreck resting about 20 miles south of Stockholm, known as “Wreck 5,” has a new identity. It was long filed under “Viking,” but fresh fieldwork shows it is a late medieval vessel built with flush planking, a style that changed how ships carried people, cargo, and weapons. The wreck lies inContinue reading “Supposed Viking ship turned out to be a 15th-century vessel”
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Eimr
Old Norse Words here.
Forget the longships: this is the overlooked story of how the Vikings dominated eastern Europe
How did the Norse adventurers of the Viking Age impose themselves upon eastern Europe? Not with longships and raids, says one historian, but through canny adaptation Their prowess as seafarers let them strike their targets at speed and then slip away just as swiftly, in repeated cycles of relentless raids from the fertile shores ofContinue reading “Forget the longships: this is the overlooked story of how the Vikings dominated eastern Europe”
Vafrleysa
Old Norse Words here.
Taufr
Old Norse Words here.