Dragons, heroes, and legendary swords 🐉⚔️ Step into the world of the Volsungs and explore one of the greatest Norse sagas. medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/vols... #Norse

Today's vikingism: this composite photograph of Norway's national football team dressed as pop-culture vikings ⚽ 📸 David Yarrow

Ongoing filming for the Museum of the Viking Age. #Vikingtidsmuseet #runology

Dive into the legendary world of the Vikings—explore their culture, conquests, and legacy with our Viking Age course! ⚔️🌊 medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/the-... #VikingHistory

New open access paper by Dr Cooijmans (former Liverpool postdoc) in Proceedings of the 19th Viking Congress, (Liverpool Uni. Press) "A Place of Contact and Contradiction: the socially constructed space(s) of viking encamp" #medievalsky #archaeology www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pb-assets/OA...

I found this neat tool that lets you generate text and images just from your ideas. It's really good!

This makes me very happy. A viking pulled it off. As vikings were wont to do. Doesn’t matter what’s to come in the TdF. He got the 3 GTs under his belt first and no one can ever take that away.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alex-harve... Come listen to me talk about the many kingdoms that made up England, Wales, and Scotland at @waterstones.bsky.social York (it’ll be funny I promise) Friday 5th June, 7pm £6 for tickets

Shout out to @medievaljon.bsky.social of Among the Ruins who inspired this post. The complexities of being a historian…. terribarnes.substack.com/p/its-not-al...

Most medievalists tend to be focused on Europe, but there was a whole other continent with lots going on at that time. Join my friend and colleague Charlie Presti to learn about the Americas from 500-1500AD. Use code SPRING for 15% off! Starts July 8. medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/amer...

Come on down! We’ll discuss some interesting stuff. No prior knowledge is required.

The Viking Sea: Ships, Storms, and Adventure in Old Norse Poetry www.medievalists.net/2026/05/the-... #Vikings

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Upcoming Medieval Studies Online Courses for Summer and Fall 2026 www.medievalists.net/2026/05/upco... #medieval

Viking Age silver brooch with Norse futhark runes on reverse, found in Penrith (England).

Just released a new (well...sort of new) Common Sense show for this who like that sort of thing... dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...

I don't usually tell people this, but because we put out so few CS shows we have a lot of people out there who would like a new CS show,but never find out we've released one. If you know one of those people, I'd love it if you'd let them know.

The Strickland Brooch, AD 800s. A fabulous example of Anglo-Saxon creativity and craftsmanship! This large silver disc brooch is inlaid with gold and niello, and decorated in ‘Trewhiddle-style’ with an intricate pattern of puppy-like animals. 📷 British Museum #Archaeology

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

This is a very good article, and I’ve been lucky enough to have lots of interesting chats over the years with @shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social about her work on this way of looking at the Viking Age - fascinating stuff

Shout out to my friends Kevin and Devon. #viking age artists extraordinaire. www.medievalists.net/2026/05/eart...

Hahahaaaa. Silly girl. #vikings we’re EVERYWHERE

This one is worth the read futuredude.substack.com/p/the-empire...

Damn this looks good - congrats Dr Tom!!

Looking suitably ominous outside the ruins of Culross Abbey (Clyde banks, Scotland) in this advert for a signing event at @waterstones.bsky.social York!

Oh my word, the Mørstad Viking âge coin hoard from Norway is now up to 4,722 coins! It is of major historical significance as well as numismatic interest. Read all about it in English here www.khm.uio.no/english/news...

A Six-Year-Old Boy On A Field Trip Just Pulled A 1,300-Year-Old Viking Sword From A Field In Norway. 📷Avisen Hadeland/Facebook allthatsinteresting.com/tingelstad-n...

💛 One of the largest hoards of Viking-Age gold arm-rings ever found in Denmark has been discovered by a man walking in a forested area near Rold in Himmerland. 📰 Read all about it in the latest A Whole Lot of History ⤵️ open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

The UHI Archaeology Institute and Glasgow School of Art, in collaboration with the National Trust for Scotland, are delighted to announce a new ARCS funded PhD opportunity investigating the heritage of Fair Isle.

Join me! It’ll be interesting, I promise 🙂

New Medieval Books: Forgotten Vikings www.medievalists.net/2025/05/new-... #books

Save 15% on Medieval Online Courses with Our Spring Sale www.medievalists.net/2026/05/medi... #onlinecourses #medievalstudies

Yessss! Listen to her talk about it just last week on my podcast 😁 vikingology.substack.com/p/the-saga-o...

100%. Have seen this at both institutions I teach/have taught at. Political/ideological activism is parasitic. Couple that with higher ed being run by corporate hacks and the entire system has been corrupted. And this is far from new. A 19th c intellectual I study was saying this 100+ years ago.

Today the Norwegian Kulturhistorisk museum assumed responsibility for further investigation of the location of the incredible Mørstad hoard - no fewer than 3841 silver coins have now been found! 🇳🇴 All these photos are theirs, including the rare triquetra penny of Harald Hardrada.

Sunrise on my farm is lovely today

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This is fantastic! www.khm.uio.no/english/news...

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Norse Myth and Legend in The Saga of the Volsungs - a new online course starting in June medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/vols... #IcelanicSagas

I did another podcast - this was great fun, with the splendid @shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social and @cjadrien.bsky.social for @vikingologypodcast.bsky.social vikingology.substack.com/p/the-saga-o...

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Awesome chat! Can’t wait to meet up in Oslo this summer.

Today's highlight in Norway: News shared about the discovery of the largest coin hoard from the Viking Age Norway. Exciting times for colleagues @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social and elsewhere! www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-...

Do not miss it! @alexharvv.bsky.social is a rare mix of charisma, entertaining, and wicked smart.

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

Another good read on this is Matthias Nordvig’s book on volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology. a.co/d/06Tq7A7n

Read Peter Turchin’s 2023 book, End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration. There is good historical data that elites cannot hide from the disintegration that they and those who aspire to be like them inevitably create.