What does Maldon have to do with Mordor? Find out in this recent article from Samuel Masters, current post-graduate student with the CSVA, available open access in the latest issue of Mythlore: dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol... #TolkienTuesday #TolkienTrewsday

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRO233/d... one year post in Old Norse #medievalsky

The SHR is pleased to announce the call for the 2026 Early Career Researcher Article Prize. The winning entry/entries will be published in the journal and receive a £500 award. The deadline is Tuesday, 8 September at 5pm.

Map of early medieval ship burials across northern Europe. Monumental expressions of maritime mobility, culture rooted in sea travel connected people around the North Sea and created new elites that, in time, formed kingdoms. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... #MedievalMonday 🏺 #Archaeology

Thank you to all today's speakers at the 2026 Midlands Viking Symposium and special thanks to @chriscallow.bsky.social for organising! From Poetic Polyphony to Descents into Hell via some isotopic analysis on the way - it's been a fantastic day of papers! #medievalsky

#JobKlaxon We are looking for a permanent Lecturer in Global Medieval History to join us at @leedsims.bsky.social! Applications due 1 June. Happy to talk to anyone interested in an informal capacity. If you are in Kalamazoo, find me at #ICMS! #leedsmedievalstudies jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Final reminder that registration for the 2026 Midlands Viking Symposium closes today at 5pm! Sign up now to join us online this Friday 15 May, 10-2.15pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sagas-the-...

Please join us next week for an online talk by @kakapitan.bsky.social Link below to register: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Congratulations @rorynaismith.bsky.social for a wonderful book launch last night! Very compelling discussion of Offa and the Mercian supremacy. I now want to spend my summer walking Offa’s dyke and revisiting the British Museum to see the Mercian gold coin once (mis)attributed to Uther Pendragon!

Life and Landscape Research Showcase held at the University of Nottingham on Saturday 13th June is now open for registration! We have a very exciting day of papers from nine Early Career Researchers and keynote lecture by @susan-kilby.bsky.social. Please share, this event is open to all!

New on the channel, @djbirishhistory.bsky.social talking to us about #medieval #Irish #literature, #disability, and #impairment. #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory

You have 3 days left to register for #IMC2026 before the standard registration deadline on Friday 01 May 2026 at 23:59 (BST) GMT+1 👀 Register here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/register/ Any questions or problems, please email [email protected] #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

Officially released TODAY!!!

Come take a jaunt through a kirkyard with me… perhaps we’ll see some runes! open.substack.com/pub/jasminhi...

Reminder that our final CSVA reading group of the term is today, 1-2pm, Trent A49! Join us as we discuss two articles: Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson and others’ “A Female Viking Warrior Confirmed by Genomics” and Neil Price and others’ “Viking Warrior Women? Reassessing Birka Chamber Grave Bj.581.”

For anyone in/near Nottingham who wants to hear about Offa of Mercia next month … checkout.square.site/merchant/MLC...

It's a month until the 2026 Midland Viking Symposium on 15 May. Sign up here! This year it's free, it's online and it's on a Friday. Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sagas-the-...

Good to see @uoncsva.bsky.social folk out spreading their research! @em-ehx.bsky.social @uonenglish.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social

Learn more about the 2025 ‘Vikings for Scouts’ initiative that has supported the Derbyshire Scouts Archaeology team in developing activities for the Derbyshire Archaeology Badge in Kate Olley’s UoN English Substack post:  uonenglish.substack.com/p/vikings-fo...

Take a look at this throwback from the UON English Substack by Francesca Squitieri about their evening sharing fascinating research with the Southwell Women's institute all about Women in the Viking Age:  uonenglish.substack.com/p/sharing-ou...

As our second semester placement comes to an end, Savannah reflects on what has been accomplished over the last 7 weeks as a Web and Social media editor! Take a look at the UoN English Substack to read about the experience:  uonenglish.substack.com/p/work-exper...

Send your #runic queries to @vikingologypodcast.bsky.social for @jaztherunologist.bsky.social to decipher them on the podcast! Great idea: open.substack.com/pub/vikingol... #runology #runes

Forthcoming deadline (1 April) for the Magnusson essay prize for students and early career scholars in the fields of Northern Studies (broadly defined) www.ssns.org.uk/magnusson-pr...

New Studies on #Emotion in Old Norse #Literature Edited by Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir, Gareth Lloyd Evans, and Daniel Sävborg More Info: bit.ly/4syJacI #Emotions #OldNorse #Medieval #MedievalLiterature #Norse #ScandinavianStudies #Iceland #Sagas

Reminder that our third CSVA reading group of the term is taking place today, 12-1pm, Trent A49! We hope to see you there as we explore Brian McMahon’s “Remembrance of Things to Come: Memory and Prophecy in Old Norse Literature.”

Over the last 6 weeks we have been working on the new Vikings in the East Midlands website and social media outreach for the CSVA. We have really enjoyed getting this hands-on experience that is giving us the chance to learn new skills on platforms such as WordPress to apply to future graduate jobs!

Searching for your next read? Women and Goddesses in Old Norse Mythology and Folklore is out now from @brepols.net, featuring musings on Hair, Tears and Blood in Ragnars saga loðbrókar from the CSVA’s Katherine Olley. #Medievalsky

The Society received an outstanding range of essays, and the the standard of submissions was extremely high. The Medium Ævum Essay Prize 2027 will open to entries at the beginning of next academic year (Autumn 2026) with a deadline of 12:00 midday (GMT) on Tuesday 1st December 2026.

Publication News 🎉! Congratulation to Emma Nuding, who’s new book 'Writing St Guthlac: From the Medieval to the Modern' is now out! Emma is a PhD in Medieval Studies graduate, current CMS research associate and teaching fellow at the University of Birmingham. boydellandbrewer.com/book/writing...

Free public launch in Liverpool - new paperback edition - you just need to register to attend. Email [email protected] to sign up for the lectures that precede it including a plenary by Prof Howard Williams #medievalsky @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-emb...

Thanks to Judith and Charlotte for a wonderful poetry reading yesterday! Now we know what it means when a Viking woman wears a red horsehair headdress and why the Orkneys is a good place to visit if you want to see a hedgehog! #RagnasIslands #Islomania

'Placing Women, Tracing Journeys: Female Mobility and Social Bonds in the Norse Period' by @thinkuhi.bsky.social Institute for Northern Studies Tara Athanasiou Public Online Seminar uploaded to our You Tube Channel. youtu.be/GvuSyaJkoyE?...

Forthcoming lecture in London (and live on YouTube apparently) on 1st April at the British Archaeological Association thebaa.org/events/lectu... #medievalsky #archaeology

Is there no end to podcasts with me rabbiting on about the #SagaoftheEarlsofOrkney? Well, I'm not good at saying no and I particularly enjoyed this one with Natalie of @ifitaintbaroquepod.bsky.social - she asked some good questions! shows.acast.com/if-it-aint-b...

Reminder to RSVP for the CSVA’s and LCCP’s collaborative seminar brought to you by Judith Jesch and Charlotte Eichler! Join us in the Senate Chamber at 5pm for some poetry and an evening drink! Please RSVP here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/rsvp...

We are so excited to collaborate with the LCCP for our seminar this term! Join us on the 12th of March for a glass of wine and an invigorating poetry reading inspired by Old Norse poetry from Orkneyinga saga. This event is free, RSVP at: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/rsvp....

An opportunity for a medievalist to join the team at Cambridge: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ346/a...

Reminder that our second CSVA reading group of the term is taking place today, 1-2pm, Trent A49! Join us as we brave the statistical waters of Juliana Casteneda et al. “Dealing with Gender Bias Issues in Data-Algorithmic Processes: A Social-Statistical Perspective.” We hope to see you there!

𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲, 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗰 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 Ben Allport, Alison Finlay (eds) More Info: bit.ly/4cKqAJo #Literature #History #Iceland #Saga #Medievalsky #Poetry #Medievalists

We are hiring .... Because John Nightingale is retiring... for a Tutorial Fellowship in European History 400-1000... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...

Spring is here, so that must mean that the 7th UHI Institute for Northern Studies International St Magnus Conference is approaching fast. ➕ 15-17th April 2026 ➕ Venue: UHI Perth Register: tinyurl.com/yc4c2ufa

Islands Matter: #Faroese & #Shetlandic #Folklore 26 Feb, free online via @insuhi.bsky.social Prof Jóan Pauli Joensen: “Water Beings in Faroese Folklore – Tradition & Change” & Prof Andrew Jennings: “From Fetlar to Foula – Norse Roots of Shetland Folklore” www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...

Welcome to the brand-new social media page for the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age! The longship has set sail for new shores as we have parted ways with X (Twitter) and are setting up camp here on Bluesky. Follow along for updates on upcoming events, new research, and all things Viking Age!