Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – A place must not be of great size to have a long and rich history. Munkholmen is certainly proof of that. Located in the Trondheim
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Hundreds of rare and well-preserved artifacts have been revealed by the retreating mountain glaciers in the region of Lendbreen in Innlandet County, Norway. Archaeologists
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Modern technology gives us a superb opportunity to look through the eyes of the ancient people. Virtual tours, like this one, can take
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – A high-resolution georadar has detected traces of a ship burial and a settlement that probably dates to the Viking Period at Edøy in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Two people died roughly 100 years apart. Nevertheless, they were buried together – in boats. In the second half of the 9th century,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists can now date some stave churches more accurately than in the past. A non-destructive measurement method called photodendrometry was used by researchers,
MessageToEagle.com – Last year, archaeologists discovered the original shrine belonging to Viking King Olaf Haraldsson who was declared a saint in 1031. St. Olaf, as he is now known,
MessageToEagle.com – Drinking horns were popular among many different ancient cultures. They were used by Scandinavians, Greeks, Romans, Thracians, Scythians and people in Africa. People have been drinking from
MessageToEagle.com – The Ausevik rock art site at Høydalsfjorden, in Sunnfjord, in Western Norway, contains more than 300 rock carvings of different shapes, of which many are dated to
MessageToEagle.com – The mystery of Viking ruler Rollo continues. An ancient sarcophagus Fécamp, Normandy, France has been opened, analysis has been conducted, but the results are startling and not
MessageToEagle.com – 2016 was a very successful year for archaeologists excavating in Scandinavia. Several remarkable ancient findings were made in the Nordic countries. Some of these ancient discoveries
MessageToEagle.com – The original shrine to a Viking-king-turned-saint has been discovered in Norway, archaeologists say. The Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) announced Nov. 11 that its researchers
MessageToEagle.com – On September 9, 999 or 1000, the Battle of Svolder was fought in the western Baltic Sea between King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway and an alliance
MessageToEagle.com – The Vikings’ ships were the greatest technical and artistic achievement of the European Dark Ages. Without these great ships the Viking Age would never had happened and
MessageToEagle.com – An ancient human skeleton discovered in the bottom of an abandoned castle well in Trondheim, Norway confirms dramatic historical events mentioned in Norse Sagas. Sverres Saga
MessageToEagle.com – Six to seven thousand years ago Stone Age people in Norway created a number of rock drawings that depict animals, but the rock carvings were not indented
MessageToEagle.com – Forensic experts from Denmark and Norway have opened a sarcophagus containing the remains of descendants of Viking ruler Rollo in Normandy, France. DNA studies will hopefully
A. Sutherland – MessageToEagle.com -In 1880 archaeologists discovered a Viking grave in Norway. Scientists examined the burial site, but fear of moisture led to the decision that the
MessageToEagle.com – Plant life in parts of the high Arctic are changing fast, possibly due to changing climate and local bird populations, but scientists are still putting the pieces
A. Sutherland – MessageToEagle.com –“… Harald who conquered for himself the whole of Denmark and Norway and made the Danes Christian.” – Inscription on the Jelling Stone.
MessageToEagle.com – On October 17, 2014 a skeleton was discovered in the well at Sverresborg Museum in Trondheim, Norway. According to an initial analysis these are skeletal remains
