The Reindeer Antler Comb
The academically accepted date for the beginning of the Viking Age is around 793 A.D. with the sack of Lindisfarne, however, new researches suggest that the Viking age may have […]
Tag Archives: European History
Ascension Day
Beforehand, I would like to apologize to the readers of this blog for not writing as often as I used to. I’ve been very busy – and there is no […]
Human Sacrifice – Northern Europe
When we talk about human sacrifices, people usually link that to an image of deep jungles somewhere in the southern areas of South America, and those semi-naked indigenous (or perhaps […]
Scandinavian Religious Leadership During The Viking Age
Unlike our European societies after christianisation, whose religious leadership is held by the church, in the scandinavian societies things were different and religion was no less important to them as […]
The Goodbye To Scandinavian Paganism
In the countries of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, people worshiped a set of deities belonging to two different tribes of gods – the Aesir and the Vanir. The Aesir were […]
The Sarmatian Shaman
In 2013, archaeologists found in Kurgan (Russia) what seems to be a Sarmatian burial mound. In the southern Ural steppes this amazing finding shows some peculiar items that may suggest […]
Herodias – The Records Of The First Witch
Throughout history there has been a ton of written records about witches, and for certain, before writing was invented, there were a lot of witches too (or at least the […]
Spiritual Journey During The British Paleolithic Period
In the narrow valley of the Nottinghamshire border, archaeologists went searching for engravings of the British Paleolithic era. In 2003, a team of archaeologists discovered an engraving in a cave near […]
Roman Britain : Offerings To The Gods
In the year of 2010 a metal detectorist belonging to a club of metal detectorists in Selby in Yorkshire, found two pots stuffed full with coins. He called in the […]
The Gods Behind The Days Of The Week
It is of common knowledge that the days of the week are so named after gods and goddesses. But how and why did that happen? Why were such names chosen […]
