A study analysed ca. 300 ancient human genomes from Scandinavia spanning 2,000 years, revealing influences from the Eastern Baltic and the British Isles over the Scandinavian Viking Age DNA.
On 17 January 2023, professor Kristel Zilmer (University of Oslo) reported the discovery of the oldest runestone unearthed in Scandinavia, dating from ca.1-250 AD.
Until now, it was believed that runes started to be carved in stone in Scandinavia only during the IVth century AD.
Published originally in Portuguese as: Reações à reforma luterana no Norte: as diversas faces da heresia e heterodoxia na Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus, de Olaus Magnus (XVIs): PLURA, Revista de Estudos de Religião, ISSN 2179-0019, vol. 8, nº 2, 2017,…
Sacrifices have been common religious practices all around the world since prehistoric times. Nevertheless, there was an extensive and sometimes heated debate over whether medieval reports on sacrifices in the Viking Age, especially human sacrifices, refer to actual events or were fabricated reports to denigrate the pagan faiths.
This article contains additional pictures and videos (used in the live presentation on 12th August 2022) to the official article, published as: Mucenieks, Andris. Relationship and Exchange Between the Northern Elites in the Viking and Medieval Baltic Area: The case…
