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Viking Food and Drink: What the Norse Actually Ate

What did the brave Viking warriors and their families eat in those distant and scarce lands on their journeys? At what time did they have their meals? How did they...

Viking Food and Drink: What the Norse Actually Ate

What did the brave Viking warriors and their families eat in those distant and scarce lands on their journeys? At what time did they have their meals? How did they...

Tablespoon of Skyr Yogurt

Skyr: The Icelandic Viking Superfood

Skyr is a dairy product, which has been a traditional Icelandic food for centuries and an indispensable part of Icelandic (Viking) cuisine. Can you make it at home?! Read now to find out...

Skyr: The Icelandic Viking Superfood

Skyr is a dairy product, which has been a traditional Icelandic food for centuries and an indispensable part of Icelandic (Viking) cuisine. Can you make it at home?! Read now to find out...

A Viking-age bead festoon on linen: two oval bronze tortoise brooches with three uneven strands of glass, amber, carnelian and rock crystal beads strung between them

Viking Necklaces: What the Norse Really Wore, a...

The real Viking necklace was not a pendant on a chain. Norse women wore strings of glass, amber and carnelian beads slung between a pair of oval brooches, and the...

Viking Necklaces: What the Norse Really Wore, a...

The real Viking necklace was not a pendant on a chain. Norse women wore strings of glass, amber and carnelian beads slung between a pair of oval brooches, and the...

Five plain Viking-age silver finger rings on linen: a flat band, a twisted wire ring, a three-coil spiral, a band with punched dots, and a cut ring fragment

Viking Rings: What the Norse Wore, and How to C...

A Viking ring, in the archaeological sense, is usually a plain or spiral silver band. Norse finger rings were simple, often doubled as portable wealth, and mattered far less than...

Viking Rings: What the Norse Wore, and How to C...

A Viking ring, in the archaeological sense, is usually a plain or spiral silver band. Norse finger rings were simple, often doubled as portable wealth, and mattered far less than...

A pair of Norse wedding bands in gold and tarnished silver carved with Scandinavian knotwork, resting on dark slate beside a red cord and bone-white linen

Did Vikings Have Wedding Rings? What the Norse ...

No. The Norse did not exchange wedding rings. Marriage was a contract between families, sealed by a betrothal before witnesses, a bride price and a feast. The ring that carried...

Did Vikings Have Wedding Rings? What the Norse ...

No. The Norse did not exchange wedding rings. Marriage was a contract between families, sealed by a betrothal before witnesses, a bride price and a feast. The ring that carried...

Five Viking-age Thor's hammer amulets in silver, bronze and iron laid on dark slate, one threaded on a red cord, each with a suspension loop at the top of the handle

Mjölnir Necklace: What Thor's Hammer Means and ...

A Mjölnir necklace is a pendant shaped like Thor's hammer, worn in the Viking Age as a sign of the god's protection and, as Christianity spread, as a deliberate badge...

Mjölnir Necklace: What Thor's Hammer Means and ...

A Mjölnir necklace is a pendant shaped like Thor's hammer, worn in the Viking Age as a sign of the god's protection and, as Christianity spread, as a deliberate badge...