Shield of Skuld
Dr Irina ManeaResearch and education on Vikings, sagas and the Early Middle Ages.
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Women of the Viking age: Gunnhild
And the honour of launching this series of Substacks belongs to the mighty Gunnhild! Not the most historical of characters, yet larger than life.
Gunnhild Mother-of-Kings (konungamóðir) was not someone you would have dared to cross. She s...
Scandinavia in the Viking age 1
Ancient Scandinavia and the beginnings of the Viking age
First lecture of my university module The "Viking" homelands!
A blast from the past: medieval supernovae
Imagine living about a thousand years ago and witnessing a huge bright spot in the skies. An omen? Divine manifest? A beast breaking free? What historical records actually documented in the 12th century, 1181 to be very exact, was a star ex...
What’s up with all the Norse sagas?
Medieval Icelandic literature is absolutely gargantuan not only in the context of the European Middle Ages, but in terms of literary developments in general. Whoever has read at least one Old Icelandic saga must have or should ask themselve...
Battle magic and mythology 4
Valhalla and the afterlife!
Included in this lecture: descriptions of Valhalla, the cosmic nature of the concept, communion cult and warrior gatherings.
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Viking historian adrift between academia and public history, mainly interested in Norse religion, burial archaeology and the reception of the pre-Christian past in saga literature. Lover of the ancient and medieval world, paleoanthropology fangirl.
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