The first town in Sweden, Sigtuna may have been the prominent crucible of the early Swedish nation state
Category: 11th century
Lisbjerg Church and Manor ca. 950 – 1200
The medieval church in Lisbjerg dates to c. AD 1100 – 1150. However, a predecessor in the form of a wooden stave church was built as part of a fenced manor c. 1000 – 1100.
Viking Kings and Queens – what did they look like?
A new project by designer Jim Lyngvild aims to visualise our Viking kings and queens. But what did they really look like?
The Norse World Database Launched
Norse World is a new database is a digital resource which will make it easier for researchers to study perceptions of the surrounding world in medieval Scandinavian literature.
Widows of Kings in the High Middle Ages
What happened to queens, when their husbands, the kings, died? Was the widows of kings still regarded as queens? How did they proceed to preserve their status and political role? New book explores the phenomena of “royal widowhood” in the English as well as German High Middle Ages