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Mjolnir, the Valknut, wolves, and knotwork. Four objects the Norse actually wore, and the precise claim each one made about the person wearing it.
In 1872 a German farmer turned up sixteen pieces of Viking Age gold on a Baltic island. The Hiddensee treasure is the finest surviving example of Norse golds...
More than a thousand Mjolnir amulets have been recovered across the Viking world, from Iceland to Ukraine. Vikings wore Thor's hammer not as decoration but a...
Finger rings are the overlooked category of Viking Age jewellery. Found in burial assemblages from Birka to the Danelaw, worn by men and women across the ent...
The Viking axe was not the elite weapon. It was carried by everyone. The Valknut placed at the centre of this blade is Odin's symbol of the warrior dead, app...
Yggdrasil meant "Odin's Horse" long before it meant "Tree of Life." Its three roots, nine worlds and gnawing serpent told a story not of serene growth but of...
Lost-wax casting was the Viking Age solution to a specific technical problem: how to produce three-dimensional metal objects of great complexity without the ...
Gungnir was not simply Odin's weapon. It was the instrument by which the lord of the slain consecrated war and claimed the dead. This article covers the myth...
A hoard found in a Danish field in 1911 contains some of the most technically extraordinary silver jewellery ever recovered from the Viking Age. The Terslev ...
The oval brooch was the defining item of Viking Age female dress. Worn in pairs at both shoulders, produced by the thousand using the lost-wax casting method...
The granulated silver beads of the Terslev hoard and the gold filigree crosses of the Hiddensee treasure represent Viking Age metalworking at its most techni...
In 1840, workmen in Lancashire pulled 40 kilograms of Viking silver from the ground. The Cuerdale Hoard was not a raider's loot pile. It was a sophisticated ...
The Viking Age economy did not run on coins. It ran on silver weighed in the hand, cut with a knife, and tested with a punch. Viking ring money, the open-end...
The Viking Age had an eastern dimension that almost no popular account reaches. Norse traders called Varangians carried furs and amber thousands of miles sou...
More than 700 Viking Age silver hoards have been found on a single Swedish island. Gotland's extraordinary accumulation of silver was no accident. It was the...
A small gold pendant from a Swedish island has divided Viking Age scholars for decades. The Bredsatra amulet depicts a masked or helmeted figure that most sc...
On the upper Dnieper river in 10th-century Russia, Norse Varangian traders built one of the largest settlements in eastern Europe. The Thor's Hammer pendant ...
