Research and education on Vikings, sagas and the Early Middle Ages.
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Jaws! The Viking way
Warning: this post contains images of human remains.
It’s become almost a trope to point out how unhealthy we live compared to people in the past. While we’re heavily reliant on ingesting the junk corporations term food (the longer the lis...
Viking Age York (extended version)
The archaeology of Jórvík (and a little more!)
An in-depth exploration of Jorvik and the many finds unearthed in the Coppergate dig, including footage from my visit to the Jorvik centre. From metallurgy to music, find out what life was rea...
Scandinavia in the Viking Age 2
Society and daily life
Second lecture of my university module The "Viking" homelands!
Women of the Viking Age: Hervör
In the second post of the series “Women of the Viking Age”, I remain in the fantastic realm to talk a bit about the formidable characters of an Old Norse legendary saga you are bound to devour once you get your hands on it: Hervarar saga ok...
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...
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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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