Archaeologists recently discovered a huge shipsetting from c. AD 600 near the largest river in Northern Denmark near Vejerslev.
Category: 7th century
The Prince from Beckum AD 600
The Prince from Beckum in North Rhein-Westphalia from the beginning of the 7th century tells a story of a man who lived in a mixed cultural setting
Odin from Levide
A sensational small amulet of Odin has been found in Levide in Southern Gotland, Sweden. The pendant belongs to a group of figurines commonly called the “weapon-dancers”
Uppsala 500 – 600
New archaeological excavations at Uppsala demonstrates the existence of an elite settlement near the famous royal mounds
How to perform Beowulf?
When the famous Nobel Prize winner, Seamus Heayney, took upon himself to translate Beowulf, he also made the poem a fashionable part of the medieval circuit. The wider question raised in a new book is what it takes to "perform beowulf"?