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Beyond The Pillars Of Hercules: Megalithic People Of Kronos Reaching America
... the ocean ". These three islands can be identified as Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland. This is the ...
Felice Vinci - 01/12/2021 - 19:56
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Remarkably Massive Viking Longhouse Discovered in Norway
While excavating near the ruins of a 17th century royal estate near the village of Sem in the Eiker district of southeastern Norway, archaeologists unearthed dozens of ancient postholes spread around the faint but unmistakable outline of a Viking longhouse. The architectural structure would have been of tremendous size.
Nathan Falde - 21/07/2023 - 14:58
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Nibelungs – Germanic Race Of Elves Or Giants?
The Nibelungs are one of the most mysterious peoples of the ancient world. Some scholars regard them as a race of dwarfs or elves. On the other hand, their close identification with giants suggests that they may have been viewed as die scions of a mythical race of giants.
Willem McLoud - 12/02/2024 - 16:28
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Not just about the booty: New study sheds light on reasons for Viking raids
... Russia. They went on voyages of thousands of kilometers to Iceland, Greenland, and Canada. The Viking Age lasted from ...
Mark Miller - 30/07/2015 - 00:36
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The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings
... also sophisticated merchants and explorers who settled Iceland, founded Dublin, and established a trading network ...
ancient-origins - 10/06/2017 - 02:28
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Never Offend a Viking or ‘The Thing’ Might Just Decide Your Fate
BY THORNEWS
If you offended a Viking, a normal reaction would be to kill you on the spot. If the murder took place in daylight with witnesses present and without trying to hide his act, the punishment for the crime was paying fines.
The Vikings had a complex honor and judicial system that probably developed over many centuries, long before the Viking Age.
ancient-origins - 01/12/2017 - 18:50
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Measuring Up Real World Archaeological Giants
... myths found in ancient cultures from Peru to China and Iceland to Egypt is the inclusion of prehistoric races of ...
ashley cowie - 14/04/2020 - 01:35
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When Vikings Come to Rule: The History of the Rurik Dynasty
... we know it today. From England and Ireland, to Normandy, Iceland, and Greenland too, these fierce Norsemen sailed the ...
Aleksa Vučković - 14/12/2020 - 13:38
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Archaeologists Discover 1,000-year-old Viking 'Parliament' in Scotland
... site in Scotland." Thing sites can be found from Norway to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Shetland, Orkney, the Highlands ...
johnblack - 27/10/2013 - 11:24
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Pre-Columbian Murals and Norse Sagas Suggest Vikings Met the Aztecs, and the Outcome Was Not Pretty
Did the Vikings visit Pre-Columbian Mexico? The depiction of white people on Chichen Itza murals in the Temple of the Warriors probably represent Vikings - the major European navigators around the time this temple was built. This suggests the tradition of the “White Lords” who had visited Mexico before the Spanish were the Vikings.
Clyde Winters - 27/11/2016 - 14:50
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Celestial Siblings: Norse Sun and Moon Gods Chased Across the Sky
Chased across the sky by a pair of wolves, the Norse sun and moon gods were tasked with a heavy burden. The Sol and Mani were responsible for pulling a chariot across the sky every day and night while simultaneously evading a gruesome death at the hands of wolves. The task was split between the two; Sol operated during the day, and Mani during the night.
Molly Dowdeswell - 12/10/2022 - 14:50
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Legendary sea monsters of the past may not be myth after all
According to Scandinavian mythology, the Kraken was a giant sea creature (said to be 1 mile long) believed to eat whales and devour entire ships, and generally described as being similar to an octopus or squid. It was first mentioned in the 13th century Icelandic saga, Örvar-Oddr.
aprilholloway - 02/11/2013 - 11:51
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Archaeologist to delve into Viking presence in Spain
... from their homelands in Scandinavia, north and west to Iceland and Vinland and south down the Atlantic Coast and ...
Mark Miller - 24/12/2014 - 01:19
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Ivar the Boneless: Viking Warrior, Ruler and Raider
One would expect "boneless" to describe a man without a lick of bravery. Or perhaps a man without a shred of compassion in a heart of ice. Yet in the case of the infamous Ivar the Boneless, son of the renowned Ragnar Lodbrok, "boneless" means precisely what it sounds like: a man lacking sturdy bones, but not power.
Riley Winters - 24/03/2019 - 11:28
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Long-lost Native American Fort of the Norwalk Discovered in Connecticut
... a Native American travel with the Vikings and arrive in Iceland centuries before Columbus set sail? Mystery of ...
Ed Whelan - 31/08/2018 - 22:45
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Irresistible Vikings? Charting Sex Bias and Gene Flows Into Ancient Scandinavia
... University and deCODE genetics based in Reykjavik, Iceland. By looking at DNA samples, the migration patterns ...
ashley cowie - 05/01/2023 - 16:00
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5 Viking Deaths And What They Tell Us About the Viking Mindset (Video)
Robbie Mitchell - 30/11/2023 - 15:53
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Ancient Myths and Legends Served to Explain the Startling Phenomenon of Solar Eclipse
... with the March equinox, will “skirt the south of Iceland, pass over the Faroe Islands and the Norwegian ...
lizleafloor - 18/03/2015 - 21:07
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Nova Anglia, The Forgotten Anglo-Saxon Enclave In Ukraine
Tucked away in the outer regions of the Byzantine empire was a pocket of towns with a series of unusual names that have puzzled academic and armchair historians alike, for among the most unexpected of the oddities that dot the antiquated maps of medieval cartographers concerning the Black Sea region, is the surprise inclusion of a town called ‘Londinia’ resting strangely in the north-eastern Crimea.
Jake Leigh-Howarth - 11/01/2023 - 20:50
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Vikings vs. Native Americans: A Clash of Cultures in the New World (Video)
... the Vikings journeyed to the Americas from Greenland and Iceland, it wasn't very peaceful. Erik the Red had begun a ...
Robbie Mitchell - 05/06/2023 - 17:00