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Week Three – Everyday Life
In week three of the HistoryExtra Academy Vikings course, Professor Ryan Lavelle explores how people lived, loved, worked and worshipped throughout the Viking world
Published: August 20, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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In week three of the HistoryExtra Academy Vikings course, Professor Ryan Lavelle explores how people lived, loved, worked and worshipped throughout the Viking world
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Norse gods and goddesses: 14 of the most important deities venerated by the Vikings
Names like Odin and Thor are commonly known. But if can’t tell your Aesir from your Vanir, or don’t know what animals pulled Freyja’s chariot, or which of the gods and goddesses survived Ragnarök, here is a guide to some of the key figures and events in Norse mythology
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What was life like for Viking women?
From matriarchs and artisans to traders and travellers, Judith Jesch explores the often rich and adventurous lives of women in the Viking age
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Beyond the stereotype of the rampaging, blood-spattered raiders lay a sophisticated culture with highly developed ideas on identity, the supernatural and what it meant to be alive. Neil Price explores the Vikings’ view of the world from five perspectives
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Judith Jesch and Carolyne Larrington share their favourite Viking poetry and discuss what it tells us about the age in which it was written
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The popular perception of Vikings is that of aggressive, pillaging, bloodthirsty male warriors. But, as historian Judith Jesch explains, the Viking Age was not just a masculine affair...
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How England rode the Viking storm. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Ryan Lavelle, historical consultant to The Last Kingdom and professor of early medieval history at the University of Winchester, argues that King Alfred's relationship with the Danes was defined by compromise as well as the power of the sword...
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In 2017, a research paper made waves by claiming that the remains of a supposed professional warrior found in a 10th-century grave in Birka, Sweden, could be female. The remains, originally unearthed in the 1880s, had been long presumed to be those of a male warrior, due to their burial with weapons and other status symbols. Judith Jesch, an expert in Vikings and Norse studies, offers comment on the recent reassessment of the remains…
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Vikings quiz - week two. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
How much have you learned about the Vikings so far? Test your knowledge of your learnings in week two with our HistoryExtra quiz
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