A new study, published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, compared rates of violence in Viking Age Norway and Denmark societies
Norway, 1940: the parliament (Stortinget) was willing to sacrifice King and government; a book by Historian Øystein Sørensen has been trying to understand why
Medieval music wasn’t necessarily supposed to be something beautiful and complex, it had other practical purposes,” says Manon Louviot, a musicologist
“If we could better understand the distinction between the literal and the figurative, this could help us to understand the human mind” says Allott
Runes were just as advanced as Roman alphabet writing: Johan Bollaert has investigated written language used in public inscriptions in Norway from the 1100s to the 1500s
In medieval Norway, high-class people – especially women– were taller and had stronger bones, according to buried remains
Findings show that the Vikings’ self-image was influenced by Ancient Rome; the research was carried out by Julie Lund
Farmers’ youth were to “Norwegianise” Oslo through folk dance and theatre, a doctoral thesis from the University of Oslo
Norse settlers in Greenland exported walrus tusk ivory to Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Kyiv was a very important trading city
A new methodology for comparing herbal medicine across societies can also be used to understand the transfer of cultural traditions
