Welcome to the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age

The Centre for the Study of the Viking Age fosters, develops and coordinates research into all aspects of the Viking Age, with special emphasis on Scandinavian contacts with the British Isles, and on literary and linguistic sources for the period. The Centre encourages postgraduate study at Masters and PhD level, and organises the Norse and Viking Seminar.

Recent and current funded projects focus on issues of migration and identity in the Viking Age, including an ESF-funded exploratory workshop on Migration and Transcultural Identities in the Viking Age, the AHRC-funded Viking Identities Network, the network for Disease, Disability and Medicine in Early Medieval Europe, and the AHRC/IRCHSS bilateral research network, Genes of Gallgoídil. The Centre is also home to the British Academy-funded English Dictionary of Runic Inscriptions in the Younger Futhark.

We welcome enquiries from prospective academic collaborators and students, and from anyone with a serious interest in Vikings and the Viking Age.

Judith Jesch (Professor)

Director of the Centre