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Viking Links
We enjoyed these - hope you will, too.
The
Vikings Homepage, with lots of info, links, and "a definitive guide to Viking
Resources on the Internet."
The UNESCO World Heritage Site and Canadian National Historic Site L'Anse
aux Meadows, presented by Parks Canada.
Viking
On-Line, a rich site full of Viking history and culture. And a ton of Viking
links.
The
World of the Vikings bills itself as "the definitive guide to Viking resources
on the Internet." They also offer a CD-ROM, "The world's most complete
reference resource on Viking history and culture..." Outstanding photographs
of artifacts from the period.
The
Online Medieval & Classical Library contains the full text of an English
translation of Heimskringla or The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
by Icelandic poet and historian, Snorri Sturlson (c. 1179 - 1241). Snorri, as he
is commonly known, wrote the text in Old Norse around 1225.
Drawings of the details of Helge
Ask, a reproduction of the warship Skuldelev Wreck #5, along with detailed information
on Viking ship construction, presented by the Technical University of Denmark.
Christine and Tom Bjornstad are the authors and owners of This
is Medieval Scandinaviaô, a rich site with great sections on Viking history and
Viking ships
An excellent article, The
Viking Longship, by John R. Hale, appeared in the February 1998 edition of Scientific
American. It is re-presented on their Web site, and contains its own internal links
to matters Viking.
Another excellent article
about the Viking Age by renowned expert Arne Emil Christensen, published by the
Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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