Research and education on Vikings, sagas and the Early Middle Ages.
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Norse sorcery with Irina-Maria Manea
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Women of the Viking Age: Aud the Deep-Minded
If you’re searching for a strong female character in the Icelandic family sagas, look no further than the formidable Auðr in djúpauðga (Aud the Deep-Minded or “Deeply-Wealthy). Powerful in all respects, she represents one of the most politi...
Women, children and the Sámi people in Viking age Scandinavia
Scandinavia in the Viking Age lecture 4
How did underrepresented groups like women, children and the Sami people live?
Prophecy of the Seeress
I am delighted to invite you to a live talk, Prophecy of the seeress: ritual specialists in the Viking world, to be held here on Substack on Oct 8 at 7:00 PM CET.
What role did magic and ritual play in the Viking world? How do we know abo...
Did the Norse worship a horse phallus?
Enlarged art thou, Völsi,
and raised aloft,
enriched with linen,
supported by leeks.
May giantesses
accept this holy object,
but now, my husband,
you must accept Völsi.
Wait, are we talking about a penis? Mhm. These bizarre a...
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Viking medievalist and public scholar, PhD cultural 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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