Viking life and culture

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Rune stone. (Photo by Getty Images)

Reading the runes: what we can learn about everyday life in the Viking Age . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Eleanor Barraclough Embers WL

Ordinary Vikings: hidden histories of the Nordic world . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Painting of the Wild Hunt of Odin

Norse gods and goddesses: 14 of the most important deities venerated by the Vikings

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An amulet depicting Thor’s hammer, Mjollnir, which he wielded with devastating effect against his foes in Norse mythology (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

Old Norse poetry: how the Vikings viewed the world . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Viking ships arriving in Britain, c1130.

“A Viking wedding involved a bed and eight people”, plus four other facts about the Vikings you might not know… . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Viking ships sailing towards unknown land.

Vikings podcast episodes

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HEXA Viking Viking wk 3

Daily life, with Professor Ryan Lavelle . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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HEXA Viking Quiz WK2

Vikings quiz – week two . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bradley James as Jomsvikings leader Harekr in season 2 of Vikings: Valhalla

Jomsvikings Legendary Viking mercenaries or men of myth?

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This statue of Alfred the Great stands in Winchester, the former 'capital' of his kingdom (Photo by TonyBaggett via Getty Images)

What if... Alfred the Great lost to the Vikings at the battle of Edington? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stone engraved with the representation of the gods Odin, Thor and Frey, with a sacrifice to Odin

Christians and pagans in Norse society: the real religious rifts between Vikings

A Viking ship is burned in a reproduction of a funeral

What do we know about Viking funerals?

A 12th century tapestry showing, on the left, one eyed Odin carrying an axe, with a representation of the tree from which he hung; in the centre, Thor, carrying his symbolic hammer in his right hand; and on the right the fertility god Frey holding an ear of corn

10 incredible Viking stories from Norse mythology

A carving of the Viking gods Odin, Thor and Freyr with a sacrifice above them. It was found on the Swedish island of Gotland (Photo by: PHAS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Gods, myths and rituals: what we know about Viking religious beliefs

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A French manuscript from c1100 shows Viking warriors sailing to Brittany. The Viking Age touched all areas of life and can still be felt today

What if... The Vikings had never left their homelands? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.