The monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana, dating back to the 6th century, stands as one of the most significant religious sites in Northern Spain, nestled within the dramatic landscape of the Picos de Europa mountains.
Category: wolf
Overwhelming Support for Rewilding and Release of Large Animals in the Oder Delta
Germans and Poles living in the Oder Delta strongly support rewilding and the introduction of large animals - including wolves and lynx, returning its landscape to its former medieval glory.
The Vosges in the Early Middle Ages, ca. 400 – 750
In the Early Middle Ages, the Vosges were regarded as a wilderness - by elites, poets and priests. However, the ideas about how to live in and utilise this wilderness were contested.
The Land of Bodi and the Nature Reserve at Bislicher Insel
Bislich, where the grave of Bodi was discovered more than fifty years ago, lies in the middle of a protected river landscape well worth visiting
Why was the Medieval Wolf Hunted to Extinction?
Roman and Germanic people revered the wolf in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. So why did a pernicious hate of one of Europe's remaining predators supersede the veneration in the Early Middle Ages?
Animals and Animated Objects in the Early Middle Ages
Animals played a large role in Early Medieval Northern and Central Europe animating all from art to religious thinking. Upcoming book tells about burial customs, gravegoods, ornamental art styles and shapeshifting
Hunting Wolves? Or Run with Wolves in the ancient Norse manner?
This January, more than 200 hunters from Sweden, Denmark and Norway went on a blood-curling wolf hunt in the Swedish Forests. Might we be inspired by literature to rethink?
Beowolf and other Wolves in Old English Texts
In the Middle Ages, two views of the wolf – as the emblem of the heroic warrior or the embodiment of the devil – fought over people’s minds. A new book explores this complex set of narratives as it unfolds in Early Medieval Literature in England.
Werewolves – a Key to understand the Old Norse World of Wilderness?
The Old Norse idea of wilderness, landscapes and human beings differed radically from that of Latin and Christian Europe. A new study of ten narratives about wolves in the Old Norse-Icelandic poems, sagas and other texts offers valuable insights into this half-forgotten and complex world
The Wolf and the Vargr in Early Medieval Scandinavia
When did the war on wolves commence? Only in the later Middle Ages it appears. On the contrary, poetry, sagas, onomastics, and pictorial art were rich in the motif of the wolf and the man and their myriad metamorphoses.
The Heroic World of the Vikings Depicted in their Skaldic Verses
Since 2002, the Skaldic project has published a large part of the Skaldic Verses from the Viking world. Although not complete, it does offer us a preview of what was the main outline of the heroic world of the Vikings as depicted here.
Werewolf Histories
Werewolves are not a distinct species nor a common European literary motif. Rather the idea of the werewolf constitutes a collection of histories or genres differing through time and space.
The Beasts of Battle: Associative Connections of the Wolf, Raven and Eagle in Old English Poetry
THESIS: The beasts of battle: associative connections of the wolf, raven and eagle in Old English poetry