Follow the complex story of migrations in Europe during the first millennium, as Germanic and Viking ancestry spread across the continent. By Jack Knudson Back in the first millennium A.D., waves of human migration across Europe created an elaborate genetic puzzle that researchers have now started to unravel with a leap in DNA analysis. AnContinue reading “How Viking and Germanic DNA Spread Through the Iron Age Migrations”
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Viking Chess Pieces May Reveal Early Whale Hunts in Northern Europe
The board game hnefatafl, commonly called Viking chess, pits an attacking player against another trying to defend the king Amorina Kingdon, Hakai Magazine This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. In central and eastern Sweden from 550 to 793 CE, just beforeContinue reading “Viking Chess Pieces May Reveal Early Whale Hunts in Northern Europe”
Metal Detectorists Discover 1,200-Year-Old Graves That May Have Belonged to High-Status Viking Women
Excavations in Norway revealed a rich variety of artifacts, including jewelry, textile tools and stones positioned in the shape of a ship By Sarah Kuta Archaeologists have unearthed coins, jewelry and stones from graves in Norway that likely belonged to high-status Viking women, reports Science Norway’s Ida Irene Bergstrøm. Initially discovered by a group of amateurContinue reading “Metal Detectorists Discover 1,200-Year-Old Graves That May Have Belonged to High-Status Viking Women”
‘Vulva stone’ and coin jewelry among remarkable treasures discovered at Viking burial site in Norway
By Stephanie Pappas An excavation of three Viking graves in Norway reveals beads, coin jewelry and a stone carved to look like female genitalia. Three Viking graves excavated in Norway contain coins from distant lands and an oddly symbolic stone carved to look like female genitalia. The graves, all of which seemed to belong toContinue reading “‘Vulva stone’ and coin jewelry among remarkable treasures discovered at Viking burial site in Norway”
Viking king’s coin find of ‘national significance’
By Katy Prickett A rare coin minted by a Viking warlord after he became a Christian king is “the first in the country” to benefit from a new Treasure Act definition on “the basis of national significance”, an expert has said. The silver penny was made for Athelstan II, better known as Guthrum, who led aContinue reading “Viking king’s coin find of ‘national significance’”