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The Vikings astonishing entry on to the world stage was in large part due to one of the first millennia’s greatest technological breakthrough – the Viking Long Boat. We still get many requests for a latter day reproduction ships from all around the globe from our friends at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde. Here … Continue reading The Viking Tar Brush
In The Viking Ship Museum | VIKINGS - National Museum of Denmark
Less than an hour away from Copenhagen, you’ll find a vibrant and living reenactment of life as it was lived before and during the Viking age, around the 6th to 8th century. Lejre Museum is located in what use to be the absolute epicentre of the ancient Scandinavian Kingdom, in the days when Norway, Denmark and … Continue reading Viking Skiing
Odin, Thor, Loke and the rest of the Nordic Gods, fought, feasted and fornicated to their hearts content; and as you can imagine were happy role models for our ancestors the Vikings. So you can imagine that they weren’t all too impressed, when the first Missionaries came preaching restraint, abstinence and quiet reflection. We see … Continue reading Why the Vikings hated Christmas
Tolkien of Lord of the Rings fame, was fascinated by the origins of the English, their culture and history in the days before their migration to the British Isles. Furthermore some argue that his collection of books are no more than an attempt to rediscover the ancient Britons. How did the English come to forget … Continue reading Aragorn was from Copenhagen
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The headlines in the British Isles feature a sensational find of Viking treasure uncovered in Dumfries, north of the Scottish borders. The haul is said to be worth a six figure sum, but has been described as priceless by academics studying Scotland’s past. Silver and gold ingots, brooches and armbands were found by a retired businessman … Continue reading How To Speak Viking
The years were rolled back as the great Sea Stallion of Glendalough, the world’s largest Viking Ship today, sailed up the river Spree and took Berlin by storm. The great exhibition The World of the Vikings which started in Copenhagen, then took central stage in the British Museum has now arrived in Berlin. Measuring 37 metres in … Continue reading Vikings attack Berlin
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Right now, september 2nd, Burning Man 2014 Art Festival is going down in the desserts of Nevada. This is not your typical party. This is a week-long annual event of insanity where every desire, idea and feeling evolves into a collective bonfire making the earth itself respond. So why would CultureNordic care about this event? Does it relate to the Nordics? … Continue reading A Burning Man
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It’s generally a little known fact that the term Viking was predominantly used as a verb. The practise of second sons, who had no prospects at home, to go abroad and find one’s fortune. What is generally also not well known is how international our ancient predecessors were, and how global the world was a … Continue reading To Go A Viking