Links and Resources
Vikings and the Viking Age
Jorvik Viking Centre - The heritage display in York, and its archaeological parent, the York Archaeological Trust.
Vikings - The BBC's website.
Vikings - The North Atlantic Saga - The 2000 exhibition at the Smithsonian.
Welcome Aboard - Boatbuilding in Viking times - an experimental multi-media site produced by the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde
Old Norse-Icelandic
Benedikz Collection of Icelandic Literature - A gift to the University of Nottingham by the family of Eiríkur Benedikz.
Dokumentasjonsprosjektet - Digitisation of many Norwegian resources, including Fritzner's dictionary.
EGIL - Electronic Gateway for Icelandic Literature - A gateway with direct links to the major libraries with Old Norse-Icelandic holdings, carefully-selected relevant websites and some digitised material.
Fiske Icelandic Collection - At Cornell University.
Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda - Available online.
Germanic Lexicon Project - Old Icelandic dictionaries and grammars available online.
Icelandic Online - a FREE online course in Modern Icelandic.
Medieval Nordic Text Archive - An umbrella for various digitisation projects. It now has a selection of Old Icelandic, Old Norwegian and Old Swedish electronic texts in facsimile, diplomatic or normalised form and more will be added.
Richard and Margaret Beck Trust - Icelandic activities at the University of Victoria, B.C.
Saganet/Sagnanet - Digitised manuscripts and early books.
Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages - An international collaborative project to re-edit the corpus of skaldic verse.
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar - The premier collection of Icelandic manuscripts, in Reykjavík. Originally, most of these manuscripts were housed in Copenhagen, and some still are, at Den Arnamagnæanske Samling
Runes and Runic Inscriptions
CISP - The Celtic Inscribed Stones Project - Includes a few with runic inscriptions.
An English Dictionary of Runic Inscriptions in the Younger Futhark - An ongoing project at Nottingham.
Futhark - a new journal to appear from December 2008
Jan Owe's runic pages - News and links, including an online version of his Svensk Runbibliografi. In Swedish.
News about runes - Online version of Nytt om runer, with additional information and useful bibliographies. Mostly in English.
Nordiskt runnamnslexikon - A downloadable dictionary of proper names in Scandinavian runic inscriptions. Instructions in Swedish.
Riksantikvarieämbetet - the Swedish National Board of Antiquities' runological division. In Swedish.
Samnordisk runtextdatabas - Download a nearly-complete database of Scandinavian runic inscriptions. Instructions in Swedish, though the database is also available in English.
Svenskt runordsregister - Third, revised edition (2006) of Lena Peterson's word index to the Swedish Viking Age inscriptions, excluding personal names. In Swedish.
Online texts in other languages
CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts - A wide-ranging 'online resource for Irish history, literature and politics' at the University of Cork. Includes electronic versions of both the originals and English translations of Irish annals and other material relevant to Viking studies.
Archaeology
Arkeologi i nord - Frans-Arne Stylegar's blog. Mostly about Norway and in Norwegian, but many useful links.
Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture - A useful database of images.
Dokumentasjonsprosjektet - Digitisation of many Norwegian resources, including archaeological ones.
Fornleifastofnun Íslands - The Institute of Archaeology, Iceland.
Kaupang - Recent investigations at the Norwegian site.
The Portable Antiquities Scheme - A national scheme for recording chance and metal-detector finds. Has a useful Database.
Quoygrew - Excavations on Westray, Orkney.
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland - Especially the CANMORE database of archaeological sites.
The Sea Stallion from Glendalough - The voyage of the reconstructed Skuldelev 2 ship from Roskilde to Dublin, summer 2007, and back in 2008.
Trent & Peak Archaeology - at the University of Nottingham
Viking and Anglo-Saxon Landscape and Economy - A project at York.
Museums
British Museum - Also has COMPASS - online collections.
Museum of London - Some Viking material and the St Paul's rune stone.
National Museums of Scotland - Especially the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Viking Ship Museum - Oslo, Norway
Viking Ship Museum - Roskilde, Denmark
Place-Names
Institute for Name-Studies, University of Nottingham - The Institute also incorporates the English Place-Name Society and Survey.
Scottish Place-Name Society - Names north of the border.
Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England - An exciting new project.
General
Nordic language, literature and culture 700-1500 - a collaborative educational initiative of universities in the Nordic countries, including some summer schools and short courses open to students from elsewhere.
Norse and Viking Ramblings - a blog recording the lighter side of Viking life
Old Norse News - 'News, Announcements, Comment and Resources for Medieval Scandinavian Studies'
Orkneyjar - Everything you wanted to know about Orkney - a good amateur site.
Roots of the British, 1000 BC - AD 1000 - A project based at the University of Leicester, examining 'Histories, genetics and the peopling of Britain'.
The Scottish Society for Northern Studies has regular meetings and conferences, and publishes the journal Northern Studies. It also offers an annual essay prize to younger scholars (deadline 31 August).
Septentrionalia - A website dedicated to making available digitised versions of out-of-print books on the medieval North.
The Viking Society for Northern Research - Has regular meetings, publishes Saga-Book, and offers small amounts of research funding. Most of the Society's extensive publications (including the journal Saga-Book) are now available online here.
