The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by
myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and …

In 1989 the Norwegian historian of religion, Gro Steinsland, successfully defended her
doctoral dissertation at the University of Oslo, and in 1991 published it as a book, with the …

[And here I too shall end this little document of mine, since I deem it utterly unfitting to record
for posterity the crimes, killings, perjuries, parricides, desecrations of holy places, the …

Au temps des Vikings​ nous plonge au sein d'une civilisation fascinante, loin des clichés
virils et barbares dont on l'a longtemps affublée: on découvre ici d'habiles navigateurs que …

Kennings can provide insight into Old Norse poets' conceptualization of emotions, cognition,
and the body, by way of the artistic associations the poets have made in their creation. This …

Icelandic sagas featuring a poet (Old Norse skáld) as the protagonist contain large amounts
of poetry, which at times seems to be a source used by the saga author and at other times …

This dissertation is an investigation of elite men's identities in later thirteenth-and early
fourteenth-century Scotland, particularly as they pertain to categories of gender and …

I'd got an enormous pile of exam papers there, and marking school examinations in the
summertime is an enormous, was very laborious and, unfortunately, also boring, and I …

“Skaldic”(from Old Norse skald,“poet”) is the name given to the large corpus of verse that is a
peculiarly Scandinavian development of the common Germanic alliterative long line. Much …