vikings
POSTPONED TO 2023 – Upton Viking Festival
During the weekend we’ll enjoy wonderful Viking themed activities including a living history Viking Encampment with MORE Vikings, Axe Throwing and Archery (both of which YOU can get involved), Birds of Prey, battle re-enactments along with Viking demonstration and crafts.
Saltvik Viking Market 2022
Fornföreningen Fibula bring you Saltvik Viking Market 2022, always the last weekend of July!
That Jorvik Viking Thing 2022
The world's largest on-line Viking Event is Back for 2022! Our digital celebration of all things Viking will return from 19-27 February 2022!
Jorvik Viking Festival 2022
Moved not cancelled! The new dates for the Festival will be Saturday 28 May until Wednesday 1 June 2022 at the Jorvik Viking Centre.
Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings
In Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson returns to the Viking homeland, Scandinavia, highlighting such key aspects of Viking life as power and politics, social and kinship networks, gifts and feasting, religious beliefs, women's roles, social classes, and the Viking economy, which included farming, iron mining and metalworking, and trade.
The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada
A gripping chronicle that transports the reader from the frozen wastelands of Scandinavia to the glittering opulence of the Byzantine empire and then finally to a muddy field of rural England.
Men of Terror: A Comprehensive Analysis of Viking Combat
Based on nearly two decades of research, Men of Terror: A Comprehensive Analysis of Viking Combat is a richly illustrated interdisciplinary study of the heart of Viking society: weapons and combat. Relying on a vast array of sources from a wide range of fields, research scientist William R. Short and independent scholar and martial arts instructor Reynir A. Óskarson dig deep into the culture of men like Fraði to better understand the mindset and performance of Viking warriors that led them to venerate and praise acts of violence and aggression. In the process they have painstakingly reverse-engineered Viking combat to account for the archaeology we have.
The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World
For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers—including the most famous, the Vikings—would reshape Europe and beyond.
The Viking Great Army and the Making of England
Featuring the latest scientific techniques and findings, this book is the definitive account of the Viking Great Army’s journey and how their presence forever changed England.
The Highland Battles: Warfare on Scotland’s Northern Frontier in the Early Middle Ages
An in-depth account of the wars Scotland's northern and western highlands in the early Middle Ages, focusing on the rivalries between the Norse warlords and the early Scottish kings.
Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla (Multiple Platforms)
You are Eivor, a fierce Viking warrior raised on tales of battle and glory. Explore a dynamic and beautiful open world set against the brutal backdrop of England’s Dark Ages.
We Vikings: Frisians & Vikings in the Coastal Area of the Low Countries
Vikings and Frisians. Inhabitants of the North Sea coasts. Blond and sturdy, with shared cultural characteristics and a similar language. Almost like family. Or were they?
