October
12
/ 2023
It is no secret that the portrayal of Vikings in popular culture has done more than its fair share to distort our ideas of what and who the Vikings were. This distortion extends across various domains, including clothing, language, culinary choices and even habitation, to name but a few. Now, another myth-busting study, dating fragments of windows from Scandinavia, shows us that Viking Age windows were created using stained glass as the 9th century, contrary to popular belief that stained-glass windows only emerged during the construction of medieval churches and castles in Denmark. Viking Age window glass fragments discovered in Haithabu in Germany. (C.S. Andersen, Moesgaard Museum / Museum für Archäologie Schloss Gottorf / Torben Sode et al.) Fragments of
