Links
Links are organized into the following groups
Darrell also maintains a set of links on his
website that is worth looking at.
Groups
- Hurstwic
- A closed group but still with a serious amount of research.
- Wynmerestow
- Ontario chapter of Regia Anglorum a Re-enactment society in England that spans the Viking and Anglo-Saxon eras, as they dominantly happened in England
- DAS Hompepage
- UK based group
- The Huscarls Dark Age
- Australia based group
- Reik Felag
- Burnaby BC based group
- The Vikings - North America
- US based group with several subgroups
- Ravenstead Household
- SCA based Norse household - not responding on Dec 31, 2010
- Viking Age Club of the Sons of Norway
- Minnesota based group
- Longship Company
- Maryland based group which owns and sails replica boats.
- International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
- Gateway for archaeology, literature and more.
- Torvik
- (Toronto Vinland Vikings) Local Ontario group of The Vikings.
- Wychurst
- Regia Anglorum's project to build a Saxon fortified manor - England
- Ulfhednir
- Viking Age Combat Group - Denmark
- ASK
- Viking Age Combat Group - Denmark
- Víkverir
- A norwegian group with a wonderful set of museum photos
Museums
- L'Anse aux Meadows, NHSC
- Viking outpost at the North end of the Newfoundland.
- Fotevikens Museum
- Swedish museum at Malmo
- Ribe Viking Center
- Toruist experience asociated with the museum in Denmark
- York Archaeological Trust
- Runs the Jorvik Viking Center, and publishes a number of books
- The Jorvik Viking Centre
- Viking Experience at York England
- Kaupang
- Norway's first town
- Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
- Smithsonian's companion site to their 2000 exhibit.
Sagas & Language
- An Icelandic-English Dictionary
- A text and Page-Image version of Cleasby and Vigufsson's dictionary
- Indo-European Language Resources
- The Germanic Lexicon Project
- Development of the Norwegian runes
- A great introduction to the norwegian runes. It also has links to other sets of runes
- Arild Hauge's Runes and Vikingpage
- Additional runesets from the same source
- Old Norse for Beginners
- An old norse course run by Icelanders with an accompanying yahoogroup
- Pronunciation of Old Norse (standard)
- A pronounciation guide to accompany the course
- Digitised texts - EGIL
- More digitzed texts about Iceland including Egil's and Hakoon's sagas
- The Bynames of the Viking Age Runic Inscriptions
- An article documenting bynames in runic inscriptions
- Runes, Alphabet of Mystery
- A collection of brief articles about runes, but from a standpoint of divination - use with care.
- Free Eddas and Sagas on the Internet
- Links to various sagas in old norse
- The Arnamagnæn Collection
- This is the Icelandic museum which houses the saga collection.
- Old Norse e-texts
- Sophus Bugge's versions of the Sæmundar Edda (1867)
- Project Runeberg
- Project Runeberg is a volunteer effort to create free electronic editions of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature and make them openly available over the Internet.
- ORB -- Secondary Sources For Medieval Scandnavia
- Online Reference Book for Medieval studies
- Project Gutenberg
- Project Gutenberg is working to move online a lot of out of copyright texts including many versions of sagas.
- Hurstwic Norse Literature
- A good short introduction to norse literature and writing
- Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar
- Old Norse version of the saga
- Netútgáfan
- Links to several sagas in old norse
- Online Medieval and Classical Library
- Online collection of medieval texts including many sagas translated into English
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- A variety of sources and excerpts arranged by topic area to aid in teaching about history
- Electronic Beowulf
- Manuscript image based edition of Beowulf
- Sagnanetið
- A saga search engine which shows images of saga manuscripts.
- Northvegr
- Modern religous group but an absolutely first rate collection of sagas and language resources such as Old Norse dictionaries/
Ships
- Viking Ship plans
- Plans for the skuldelev 3 & 5 boats
- Longship Company
- A group which owns, repairs and sails replica viking longships in the NE US
- Viking Ship Museum
- Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde Denmark
- Nordic Underwater Archaeology
- A sources for contacts, projects, articles and so on
- Nordic Replicas
- A collection of links to various replica longships
Equipment & Supplies
- Historical Footwear
- A series of discs and documents for sale with patterns and instructions
- A Simple Medieval Shoe
- From Parliment street in York
- Footwear of the Middle Ages
- Marc Carlson's excellent site on footware
- A Replica Viking Chest, Based on the Mastermyr Find
- Good instructions for reproducing
- How to make a replica of a Viking Table based on the Sala Hytta Find
- Not entirely sure of the interpretation as a table but good instructions
- Time Warp Textiles
- Interesting textiles
Books
- Oxbow Books
- A great source for viking era research materials, also has a North American outlet (David Brown books)
- ABE Books
- A wonderful source for used books
- York Archaeological Trust
- A good collection of books about the Jorvik Dig site
- Medieval Institute Publications
- Publications site from the folks who host the International Congress on Medieval Studies
- Books on Vikings in Ireland
- A useful source for specific material including the Dublin excavations
- Four Courts Press
- Some interesting archaeology titles
Archaeology
- Frojel Discovery Programme
- Public access site for the Gotland archaeology program
- Picture stones - Museum of Gotland
- A virtual tour of the hall with the picture stones
- Frojel Newsletter
- Four volumes available online
- Archaeologica
- Archaeological news and links
Pastimes
- Viking Siege
- A Freeware Tafl Game
Articles
- Sun Compass
- Eric Topegaard's Alternate explanation of the Sun Compass
- Scandanavian Daymarks
- Telling Time Without a Clock: The Scandanavian Daymarks
- Viking Society for Northern Research
- Some good articles and books for sale. The VSNR website has other links including to their works available free on a separate website
- Bibliography of Old Norsw Icelandic Studies
- A selective list of articles
- Arms and Armour of the Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age
- A regia Anglorium article
- Viking Art: Ornamentation styles and the picture stones.
- A lot of broken links make commenting difficult
- Vinland Map - review
- A book review article by Paul Saenger
- Viking Fighting Arts from 23 Sagas
- A collection of quotes about combat and weapons from sagas
- Archaeology Magazine
- Occasionally have articles of interest
- Archaeology Data Service: homepage
- Digital data from various sources
- British Archaeology magazine, February 2001
- Often has articles of interest
- Viking Resources for the Re-enactor
- Caroline Priest-Dorman's pages on various aspects of the Norse World
- NOVA's viking page
- Companion website for the Nova program on the vikings
- Robin Wood's Home Page
- This is Robin Wood's home page. He's the only full time pole lathe wood-turner left in the UK.
- Slideshow - pole lathe
- This is a slide show of Robin at work and it is very helpful in seeing the equipment in use.
Textiles
- Naalbinding
- A how-to guide
- Leg Wraps
- An article on leg wraps from Miklagard
- Anne Blinks Textile Study Collection
- A personal collection of textiles including tablet weaving and sprang
- Seam treatments on the Viborg shirt
- An extremely focussed article with images
Beads
- Arkaeodok CD on Viking Beads
- A very useful source documenting approximately 200 beads found in Gotland
- Frojel - Beads
- A good on-line collection of information from the frojel works
- Glaspärlor
- Bead Furnace reconstruction (Swedish)
- Imme Struer
- German site showing the creation of a bead furnace
- Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon and Viking Crafts - Glass and Amber Working
- Not a bad introduction although with some obvious issues
Other Collections of Links
- Irish and Viking
- A collection of links with a decent breadth
Dark Ages Re-Creation Company
