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VIKING CULTURE
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| Bronze Casting in Viking Age | Collection of personal experience and articles on the craft. | |
| Daily Life in the Viking Period | Describing the structure of the Viking society and how it was maintained. | |
| Fire on the Water | The myth and history of Viking funerals. | |
| Freya | A brief description of the Norse goddess, Freya. | |
| Glima - Wrestling of the Vikings | A popular sport of the Vikings, glima was a form of wrestling between two opponents. | |
| Hólmgang and Einvigi: Scandinavian Forms of the Duel | What duelling and feuding meant to the Vikings, and the methods of restraining bloodshed. | |
| Our Norse Heritage | Long list of links to many aspects of the Vikings culture and society. | |
| Project Beowulf | Comparing the Vikings' way of thinking to our modern-day outlook on many aspects of life. | |
| Runes - The Viking Oracle | A brief overview of what runes are and where they came from. | |
| Runic Calendars | Time reckoning in the Viking age. | |
| Status in the Viking World | Viking class structure based on army and fighting ranks. | |
| The Orkneyinga Saga | Discussing the importance of this saga in providing information about Viking history. | |
| The Pre Ragnarok Viking Gods | Identifying and describing the role of the Viking Gods. | |
| The Viking Linguistic Heritage | Viking words which have been adopted by other languages. | |
| The Voyage of the Norwegians Torulf and Egil to Estonia in 925 | Their voyage was made in the time of King Eirik Bloodaxe to Kuraland on the north-east coast of Latvia. It gives a good picture of local life and conditions. | |
| Viking Answer Lady [1] | Describing what type of people could be called Viking. | |
| Viking Answer Lady [2] | The pets and domesticated animals of the Vikings. | |
| Viking Answer Lady [3] | The role of horses in Viking life. | |
| Viking Astronomy | A Viking map of the stars. | |
| Viking Links | Wide range of links covering many aspects of Viking culture. | |
| Viking Ornamentation Styles | Looking at the six major periods of Viking decoration. | |
| Viking Pilgrimage to the Holy Land | Essay discussing the religious beliefs of the Vikings. | |
| Viking Religion | Scandinavian mythology and pre-Christian religious beliefs of the Scandinavian people. | |