Midlands Viking Symposium

The twelfth annual Midlands Viking Symposium will be in Nottingham on Saturday 23 April 2016. The theme will be ‘Interpreting the Viking Age’ and there will be talks on saving the Oseberg ship with science, stable isotopes, place-names around the Viking diaspora, Viking Yorkshire, and remembering the early medieval past in Iceland.

Tags: Centre for the Study of the Viking Age, history, Midlands Viking Symposium, Norse, research, School of English, viking

On the trail of the Vikings

The first major exhibition on Vikings at the British Museum for over 30 years highlights a […]

Appears in Issue 78

Tags: Arts and Humanities Research Council, Aya Van Renterghem, British Museum, Centre for the Study of the Viking Age, Eleanor Rye, Gareth Williams, Jayne Carroll, Languages Myths and Finds, Professor Judith Jesch, The Vikings in Britain, Vikings — Life and Legend, Vikings Live

Poetry of the Vikings

Vikings were renowned as warriors but a new book reveals their poetic side – and a ribald sense of humour.

Appears in Issue 67

Tags: British Museum, Centre for the Study of the Viking Age, ISBN 978 0 7141 2830 6, Professor Judith Jesch, Professor of Viking Studies, Viking Poetry of Love and War

Spotlight

The University in the news

Appears in Issue 64

Tags: Carbon Management Plan, Centre for the Study of the Viking Age, Department of Archaeology, Dr Jon Henderson, Dr Richard Simper, Economic Efficiency of Rehabilitative Management in Young Offenders Institutions in England and Wales, Eminate, Greenmetric league table, SODA-LO™ Salt Microspheres, sustainability, The Battle of Largs, The Last Battle of the Vikings

Knight of Norway

A University of Nottingham scientist has received a New Year’s Honour with a difference…a Knight of the First Class from the King of Norway.

Appears in issue 55

Tags: Centre for the Study of the Viking Age, National Centre for Macromolecular Hydrodynamics (NCMH), Professor Stephen Harding