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23/09/2026

https://followthevikings.com/library/magazine/

Hugin & Munin has exclusive stories and articles from around the Viking world, from new discoveries in archaeology to the events of hit TV shows like ‘Vikings’ and ‘The Last Kingdom’.

15/08/2026

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14/08/2026

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Around the year 970 AD, a woman was buried in the waterlogged earth beneath what is now Coppergate, York.

She left no name. No stone. No record of her life.

What she left was a cap.

The cap is made of silk. Not wool, not linen, silk, which in the Norse world of 10th-century England was not a fabric that arrived by accident. It traveled overland and by sea from the Byzantine Empire or the Islamic world, passing through merchant hands across thousands of miles before it reached northern England.

Whoever she was, she could afford it.

The cap was recovered during excavations at Coppergate in the 1970s and 1980s, one of the most significant urban Viking digs ever conducted in Britain. York, known to the Norse as Jorvik, was a working, trading city at the time, not a battlefield, not a saga site. A place where people lived and ate and dressed and died.

The wet, oxygen-poor soil preserved what dry ground would have destroyed. Leather. Wood. Textiles. Evidence of daily life that almost never survives.

The silk cap has linen ties. It was designed to be secured under the chin or around the head. The style is consistent with what historians understand about married women's hair-covering customs in the Norse world, a practice that was social, not purely religious, marking a woman's status within her household and community.

To wear silk was to announce something. Not loudly. But clearly.

It tells us she was not a figure from the margins. She had access to luxury goods in a city built on trade. She participated in a material culture that stretched from Scandinavia to Constantinople.

The cap is small. It fits in your hands.

For a long time, the popular image of Viking women was thin at best, mostly a supporting figure in a story about men with axes. The Coppergate excavations pushed back against that, quietly, through objects like this.

A silk cap. Linen ties. A woman who wore it.

No saga records her name. The ground did.

14/08/2026

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In Denmark, archaeologists have uncovered a Viking Age site that changes the way we imagine the Viking world.

Not a battlefield.

Not a burial mound.

A massive textile production center.

Located at Søften, about 10 kilometers north of Aarhus, the site covers around 100,000 square meters and dates to between 600 AD and 950 AD, from the late Iron Age into the early Viking Age.

Across the settlement, archaeologists found more than 80 pit houses — semi-submerged buildings used as workshops and dwellings. Inside and around them were the tools of textile production: spindle whorls, loom weights, traces of flax processing, pottery, glass beads, and silver coins.

This was not random household work.

It was organized production.

The scale of the site suggests that textiles were being made for more than local use. Near Aarhus, then known as Aros, this settlement may have fed into a much larger trade network, connecting rural production with markets, elites, and international exchange.

That is what makes the discovery so important.

The Vikings are often remembered as raiders, warriors, and seafarers. But Søften reveals another side of their world — planning, labor, craft, economy, and control over resources.

To produce textiles on this scale, a society needed organization.

Workers.
Materials.
Markets.
Power.

Beneath the soil of Denmark, archaeologists have found not just Viking tools, but evidence of a complex production system more than 1,000 years old.

A hidden workshop landscape.

A million square feet of industry.

And a reminder that the Viking Age was built not only by swords and ships, but by hands at the loom.

11/08/2026

https://www.op.no/fikk-storfint-besok-han-ma-du-snakke-med/s/5-36-1967947

To svære Oslo-busser stappfulle med 200 ivrige forskere og professorer fra hele Europa, med en helt spesiell gren av utdannelse, ruller inn på Kaupang.

29/04/2026

https://www.forskning.no/arkeologi-vikingtiden/har-funnet-3000-mynter-fra-vikingtiden-virkelig-enestaende/2656166

Det har ennå ikke sluttet å pipe i metalldetektorene som søker etter mynter på et jorde ved Rena i Innlandet.

31/12/2025

Håper at 2026 blir et godt nytt år
for oss alle!

25/12/2025