I am huge fan of Tom Lovell's illustrations. Lovell was highly skilled as a draftsman, efficient with the brush, and could really paint a great figure, male and female. Lovell entered the illustration field just after the Golden Age of illustration, sharing a studio with Harry Anderson for a short
The Viking graves with the beheaded skeletons suggested that the Vikings once sacrificed their slaves into the graves with their masters as the grave gifts.
The intricately carved stones were raised nearly a millennium ago as memorials to the dead.
The Viking Age, stretching from the late eighth to the early 11th century, is a crucial period in the history of Northern Europe. The Vikings, fearless seafarers hailing from Scandinavia…
Explore the fascinating historical concept and recipe of a Viking blood bread in our article. Click here to learn more information.
Are you fascinated by Viking culture and curious to find out more about your potential Scandinavian heritage? A DNA ancestry test can help you unlock the secrets of your genetic past. Learning more about your
Calling the Swedish site of Birka a Viking village requires a lot of imagination, because, well, unless you're an archeologist willing to do some digging, there's not much to see in Birka.
While the Vikings had settlements all over Scandinavia, throughout Europe and the wider world, Norway is often in focus when we talk about Vikings today. Let's take a look at the Viking history in Norway.
This entry comes as a bit of a preview. Come next February, I have a title slated to release on Ford—Maidens, Monsters, and Heroes, The Fantasy Art of H. J. Ford. I've given his work a look or two in relation to a given subject, (There is a nice color plate on mermaids, from a few weeks ago) but I haven't really focused in on him yet, so now is the time. What I cannot understand about Henry Justice Ford's (1860-1941) work, is how much it is overlooked. There is a ton of it out there, much of it still in print today. While Ford did some beautiful watercolor work, I find his best moments are rendered in ink. He had an understanding of contrast and placement that seems to nearly vanish from his color work. Ford's career didn't really spark until 1890, when he first collaborated with Andrew Lang on The Blue Fairy Book. This was the first in a set of fairy tale collections that he worked on with Lang; originally with other artists as well, but once they got it down, Ford and Lang became a powerful tandem with successes that few artist/writer teams enjoy. There were 12 Fairy books, and all sorts of other anthology collections as well. Hundreds and hundreds of illustrations. One thing I have really taken note of as I've leafed through many of the Ford editions, is that he really had a handle on the idea of a dragon—especially for the time. I cannot recall seeing other images of dragons as early as 1905, that still have the characteristics we place on them today. If Ford were working today, he would definitely be in the fantasy market—Ford's dragons hold up remarkably well, design-wise. I can't help but think that factors like wing design, head shape, and claws all still carry some of the look that Ford was using a century ago, and I imagine that most writers of Fantasy in the last hundred years, were influenced in some way by the Fairy books put out by Lang and Ford. I thought I'd share a bit of what I mean by that with these images, from the score of years that Ford was most active, from 1900-1920. ——— Top to Bottom- St. George. Who takes on drawing a dragon from the back? I have to imagine he spent some time looking at some sort of lizard in a zoo, and that was the angle he got. Beowulf. Holy cow. What a crazy wonderful piece. A Danish Raid in Britain. In 1916 Ford took on a series of "historical" works for a school book. He must have had some luxury of time, or maybe he took the subject more seriously—these pieces are far more developed than his earlier color works, and full of details that usually only survive in his ink work. The Giants shadow. One of my very favorite Ford inks. There is a whole story going on here, if you just take the time to look. The Giant(s) shadow, with his hand on the far left. Low in the composition is the fair damsel, standing in the rocks...and is that a prince hiding under the horse? Nice storytelling. I love the way the shape of the piece makes your eyes travel to read it. ___Next week, I'll have some images from my new title on Willy Pogány, hitting the stores any day now!
Mårten Eskil Winge 1825-1896 Zweden
Fancy getting up close and personal with the Vikings? Maybe one of these festivals in Norway, Sweden or Denmark will take your fancy. Viking culture has always been popular but in the past few years
Our guide will get you straight to Sweden's best Viking sites – and show you where you can drink beer from a goblet!
While the Vikings ate a lot of meat, and certainly liked their drink, the Viking diet were more sophisticated that campfire cooking.
Jesper Lynge, 44, from Aalborg is attempting to revive Viking cookery from his restaurant at Lindholm Høje. According to the chef, Vikings had a surprisingly refined palate and loved a good risotto.
Inside the Viking household: portals to the dead, magical artefacts and ‘slaves’. The Vikings are more popular than ever. TV shows such as Last Kingdom and Vikings have added dramatic license to particular historical accounts, while
The Viking Age lasted a few hundred years. But what happened, and when? We take a detailed look at the Viking timeline. The Viking era is the period following the Germanic Iron Age. From around
Discover why a Viking party is often called the wildest in history and unveil the fascinating Norse celebration traditions. Read here for more.
The Viking Age lasted a few hundred years. But what happened, and when? We take a detailed look at the Viking timeline. The Viking era is the period following the Germanic Iron Age. From around
Discover the history of the Viking Age. From Norway, Scandinavia, and beyond, this is the story of the travelling Norsemen. Over the course of around 250 years, seafaring Norsemen left their homes to pursue riches
A thrall (Old Norse/Icelandic: þræll, Norwegian: trell, Danish: træl, Swedish: träl was a slave or serf in Scandinavian lands during the Viking Age. The corresponding term in Old English was þēow. The status of slave (þræll, þēow ) contrasts with that of the freeman (karl, ceorl) and the nobleman (jarl, eorl). The Middle Latin rendition of the term in early Germanic law is servus. The social system of serfdom was continued in medieval feudalism.
The Viking Age lasted a few hundred years. But what happened, and when? We take a detailed look at the Viking timeline. The Viking era is the period following the Germanic Iron Age. From around
A brief article on the burial customs in the Norse culture during the Viking Age, followed by a documentary film on a Viking Age burial mound.
What you should know about Viking heritage. Where Finns Vikings or were they just pheasants or slaves of the Vikings.
What Was The Difference Between Danish, Swedish, And Norwegian Vikings?
So much for Hagar the Horrible. Viking women may have have outnumbered men moving to England in the medieval era, suggests a look at ancient burials.
The sagas of the northmen make the perfect subject for games. We take a look at historic games played by the Vikings, along with modern video games inspired by the era. When they weren’t swashbuckling
This is the first in a series of three posts about Viking foods, the patterns of Viking food-culture, and the connection between food and spirituality in the Viking diet. This series began as research for my upcoming novel “In the Company of Stones,” an historical fantasy set in 780's Denmark. No fantasy-land bread-cheese-stew for my characters. I want to feed them the real thing. First off, Vikings were not the size of houses, like this guy. Or like this local Viking. Dude, could ya lose the horned helmet? Puh-leeze? Vikings this size aren't heroes, they're targets. This pair are the results of the American diet, heavy on High-Fructose Corn Syrup, refined carbs, and fatty meats. REAL Vikings tended to be a lean, rangy lot. Why? The Authentic Viking Diet! Contrary to movie images of bloodthirsty Vikings gnawing on the severed limbs of their victims, or Dark Age Vikings munching gravel by the side of the road, real Norse-folk ate a surprisingly varied diet of healthy foods. What the Norse had in abundance was fish, and lots of it. They ate shellfish, perch, pike, whitefish, common garfish, roach, rudd, bream, shrimp, haddock, flatfish, ling and mackerel, smelt, eel, salmon, cod and herring. Wild game included deer, elk, bear, boar, squirrel, reindeer and hare; wild birds and their eggs; fish and marine mammals including whales. The Norse also kept domestic chicken, geese, and ducks for meat and eggs, as well as livestock including cattle, sheep, goats and pigs. (Image courtesy of the professional Vikings at lore-and-saga.co.uk) Even though they lacked canning and refrigeration, the Norse had many options for preserving perishable foods. Methods used included drying fish, baking grains into flat-bread and storing the rounds in the rafters; smoking meats and fish and hanging them in the rafters as well; conversion of milk into cheeses, soured butter, and skyr, a yogurt-like soft cheese. (Rumor has it that skyr is available at Whole Foods, although I've yet to find it.) Vikings also pickled boiled meats in crocks of 'spoiled' or soured whey, in which the lactic acid in the whey would prevent further bacterial spoilage. What would it be like to eat meat pickled in sour whey all winter? How glad would you be for spring to arrive? (I imagine Viking women throwing their husbands out to go hunt fresh game as soon as the snows stopped.) Although the Norse didn't eat Western Hemisphere foods such as potatoes, corn and tomatoes, their diet was quite complex. Grains were largely barley, rye, and oats, as wheat did not do well in the short northern growing season. For vegetable proteins, they ate beans and peas, hazelnuts and imported walnuts. Pot-herbs included loose-leaf cabbage, endives, docks, cresses, nettles and lambs-quarters; root vegetables including onions, parsnips, turnips and scrawny white carrots; flavoring herbs such as dill, mustard, parsley, thyme and horseradish; wild fruits such as apples, pears, cherries, sloe-berries, cloud-berries, lingonberries, and wild strawberries. The staple drink was ale made with malted barley, sometimes flavored with sweet myrtle. They also drank apple and pear cider, honey-mead, and imported wines. With far-flung trade routes extending to Byzantium, Vikings imported spices such as cumin, coriander, pepper, saffron, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, cloves, grains of paradise, ginger, cardamom, aniseed, and bay leaves. The Norse husfreyja (housewife) had all the best stone and iron-age tools to cook her family's meals. (Repro utensils photo courtesy of Warehamforge.ca) Liquids were poured into a suspended animal-skin sack and then heated by dropping hot stones in with the liquids. Foods were baked by heating small stones in the open cooking fire and then rolling them into stone ovens to heat the interior. The most common method of cooking food was boiling it in iron cauldrons hung over the fire. Iron spits were also used to roast meats, and flat iron pans were used to bake breads in the fire. Despite the limitations of a cool climate and Iron Age technology, the archaeological evidence shows the Norse consumed enough nutrients to be tall, straight – and one presumes, handsome. (Image courtesy of the Saga Exhibit, Pearlan, Reykjavik, Iceland) Research as led me to conclude the Viking diet was far healthier than our own. Our Norse ancestors ate lean proteins like fish or grass-fed cattle. Their carbs came from whole, unrefined grains. Sugars were unheard of, with the exception of wild raw honey. Raising or catching your own food also takes a tremendous amount of calories – some estimates of the calories needed for labor at a Viking homestead run up to 10,000 calories a day. It would have been difficult for a working Viking to 'bulk up.' So were Vikings giant, muscle-bound men as depicted in fantasy literature? No. Were they lean, mean fighting machines? Mmmm – maybe. Lean and combative? Yes. Mean? No. But that's a tale for a later post. For a more exhaustive breakdown of Viking foods by location, see: www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/vikfood.html
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For those interested in discovering the Viking world, Foteviken Open-air Viking Museum south of Malmö, in the region of Scania, Sweden is a key location. Especially if you are traveling with kids
The ordinary nature of how the Vikings lived day-to-day may surprise you. From working the farms to entertaining themselves with competitive sports, the Vikings lived largely normal lives by today's standards.
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