The artifact was remarkably preserved for a millennium in anaerobic clay on a private estate near the city of Montfoort ...

A construction crew discovered a 1,000-year-old iron sword in the Netherlands still fully intact. The short sword comes ...

Sacrificial sword straddled Christian-Viking divide. At first glance, it appeared to be just like any other medieval weapon, however the true significance of this sword has since come to light.

The iron is barely corroded due to the oxygen-poor environment of the wet soil it was buried in, and traces of the wooden ...

The iron sword contained symbols that formed the shape of a cross and was found abandoned on purpose during maintenance work.

In doing so, they will also learn how to approach the main types of written and material evidence relevant for the history of Northern Europe in the Viking Age and the High Middle Ages, for example, ...

A medieval sword defied the elements for 1,000 years, ... The other side offers a common Viking Age symbol of an endless knot featuring five interlaced squares within a circle.

T oday, much of the popular discourse on the Vikings tends to be directed towards the rehabilitation of medieval Europe’s northerly inhabitants as respectable people. In Laughing Shall I Die, Tom ...

Viking and Medieval Norse Studies (master) Students enrolled in other Master`s Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme. If you ...