In a Medieval church cemetery in Iceland, archaeologists found hundreds of burials eroding from along the coast of a tiny island called Haffjarðarey. One woman's skull presented a unique puzzle: what ...

Crania from a Nordic 'golden age' sit in a Harvard museum basement, and now researchers on both sides of the Atlantic want to reunite them with their bodies. An excavated burial from the medieval ...

Academic conferences can be weird things. They all seem to share a normalized process and structure and they tend to be quite focused in their subject area, either by discipline or subject area. Every ...

As Iceland became part of the Norwegian kingship 1262, a new power structure in the shape of an Icelandic aristocracy appointed by the king of Norway was established. This development is discussed in ...

“I follow Latin traces from Icelandic manuscripts, but the Latin written material in Iceland has been forgotten. Previous research has focused mostly on texts in Old Norse in Icelandic manuscripts,” ...

They recount tales of Viking raids, Norse history, kings and gods: a priceless collection of medieval manuscripts, bequeathed by an Icelandic scholar to the University of Copenhagen in the 18th ...

These abandoned medieval turf houses are common in the Icelandic landscape. In the past, they offered good insulation compared to buildings made of wood or stone ...

Within 100 years of Iceland’s settlement by Vikings and Celts in the late 9th century, a devastating volcanic event wreaked havoc on the island. In a rare type of eruption known as a lava flood, ...

As Iceland became part of the Norwegian kingship 1262, a new power structure in the shape of an Icelandic aristocracy appointed by the king of Norway was established, according to recent research that ...