May opens with the area's annual Armed Forces Day Parade and Viking Fest, and summer won't be far behind. That means festival ...

After the Viking Age, the stereotype of the burly and ruthless male Viking warrior arose in the medieval sagas that detailed their exploits, and again in the late 19th century during Scandinavia ...

The Vikings left behind only a few thousand runic inscriptions. So most descriptions of warlike women and "shield maidens" come from semihistorical works written during the post-Viking medieval ...

Also referred to as the Great Synagogue, this place of worship is the largest synagogue in Europe and the second-largest in the world (only Temple Emanu-El in New York City is slightly bigger).

and material data from medieval settlements and graves. have learned how research questions are formulated and studied in the fields of Viking Age history and the history of the Scandinavian Middle ...

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