Goodbye to the Vikings
The term ‘Viking’ as it is commonly used is misleading, warping our perception of the Middle Ages. It should be retired.
Vikings
Who’s First?
The Norse voyages to Greenland and Canada as part of a bigger story.
Vikings Attack Lindisfarne
The monks at the church of St Cuthbert were taken by surprise on 8 June 793.
Wishful Thinking
The tolerant and worryingly modern Vikings.
Vikings: Warriors of No Nation
Norse travellers reached every corner of the known world, but they were not tourists. The ‘racially pure’ Vikings of stereotype were, in fact, cultural chameleons adopting local habits, languages and religions.
St Edmund the Viking Saint
The cult of the quintessentially English saint was the product of the Vikings who defeated him.
You Say Ragner, I Say Ragnar
The unlikely links between an obscure English saint and a Viking warrior.
Magic, Medicine and the Viking Way of War
Viking sagas tell of conflict and heroic voyages but are prone to fantasy and exaggeration. How accurate are their scant accounts of the treatment of those injured in battle? Brian Burfield examines the elusive practice of Viking medicine.
Barbaric Beauty
We might applaud the tall, blond and ruggedly handsome Vikings of pop culture as being historically accurate, but authentic engagement with the past requires more than just convincing hair and make-up.
Return of the Vikings
The Vikings are back with a vengeance, writes Jeffrey Richards