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Roaming The Viking Age

Headlines & Grapevines: Apr-Jul 2019

Much ado about Viking exhibitions, burial rituals, the grave of Emma of Normandy, a newly found Lewis Chess piece, and Repton, of course!

A sword on the mountain tops.

Live Coverage of excavations in Iceland.

05 October 2019 – A New Viking Hoard in Scotland updated with new information.

25 September 2019 -New source in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

25 September 2019 – Some thorough rewriting (not revision) of the first two parts of the Viking Tapestries series.

18 September 2019 – Lewis and Harris updated with Sketchfab link!

15 September 2019 – The term wergild added to Glossary.

08 Sept 2019 – New Who’s Who items: Edward the Confessor, Alfred Aetheling, Goda of England, and Gunhild of Denmark. Guess who their mother is?