The Art and Significance of Viking Braids APRIL 23, 2024 Share: Ah, Viking braids: not just a fashion relic for history-themed parties, but a storied hairstyle steeped in Norse culture. Today, these braids are making a comeback, not just on runway models or in history buff meetups, but as a vibrant nod to those rugged warriors of the north. Let's unravel the mystery and mastery of these ancient plaits! Join Our Clan Sign up to get first access to new products, special discounts and Viking news ..read more

Unraveling the Ancient Art of Glima: Wrestling with Viking Legacy! AUGUST 24, 2023 Share: Picture this: a Viking, not just brandishing a mighty sword or axe, but also locked in a fierce wrestling duel. This is the mesmerizing world of Glima wrestling! It's akin to finding out your medieval hero possesses a secret flair for acrobatics – both surprising and utterly enthralling. Join Our Clan Sign up to get first access to new products, special discounts and Viking news ..read more

FILL YOUR HORN WITH THIS VIKING-ERA MEAD Want to make mead like a Viking? Well, there are varying levels as to how far you can go to truly “go Viking” when making mead. Really, it’s simple when it comes down to it. Mead is by definition fermented honey water. Add water to honey and it will literally ferment on its own (provided you’re using clean, non-chlorinated water and raw, unpasteurized honey) due to the yeasts and fermentation-enhancing microbes that occur naturally in honey. However, it takes a bit more than just adding honey to water to make a flavorful, well-aged mead, but the f ..read more

Fact or Fiction? 4 Common Myths about Viking History! VIKING MYTH 01: DID VIKINGS REALLY WEAR HORNED HELMETS? Did the Vikings really wear shining helmets, adorned with horns and of oxen, rams, and deer? Did they really rush into battle in the guise of animals, either to honor the gods or to strike fear into the hearts of their enemies? Fact or Fiction? 4 Common Myths about Viking History! Viking Myth 01: Did Vikings really wear Horned Helmets? Did the Vikings really wear shining helmets, adorned with horns and of oxen, rams, and deer? Did they really rush into battle in the guise of anima ..read more

Everybody knows that Vikings drank their banquet mead out of horns. When you pick up the keys to your time machine, and you go back to the Viking age and you go to your first wedding reception, someone, probably a woman, will hand you a horn when it’s time to toast the bride. Everybody knows this because it’s a scene you see a lot on rune stones and jewellery. It’s an archetype like when Odin is welcomed by the Valkyries into Valhalla. He gets his mead from a great horn and all is well in that old Norse way. But is the whole drinking horn thing true? And if so, is it a particularly Viking t ..read more

Everyone knows the Scandinavians are pretty casual about relationships and they’ll have sex with anyone. Obviously, that’s because they’re descended from Vikings, for whom ‘marriage’ was really abduction.   Actually, the Scandinavians aren’t especially liberal by northern European standards or they don’t seem so to those of us who have lived among them. It is true that Swedish movies showed boobs in the 'fifties' and Swedish primary schools were the first to have mandatory sex education. It is also true that some Scandinavians are pretty liberal but culturally, Scandinavia varies a lo ..read more

Type ‘runes’ into Google and see how superstitious we’ve become – either that or how fanciful about the middle ages we’ve become.  Runes are phonetic characters in a family of writing systems from early northwest Europe and it’s a feature of our gothic fascination with our past. We like to think that to the medievals, these characters were magic. There’s no evidence of that. In fact, the medievals would be astonished to hear how we talked about their letters and rune magic, almost entirely, is a 20th-century invention. But what an invention! You’ll be glad to know that runes are ..read more

Hypothetical Battles: How Vikings Would Have Fared vs Historic Armies june 27, 2023 Share: We're all guilty of it... Who hasn't imagined how one historic force might have fared fighting against another empire from a different time and place? Today, we are going to indulge and imagine some epic battles between the Vikings and other famous groups of fighters from history. How would they fare against each other? Who would win and why? So, grab your axe and shield and join us for the top 5 imaginary Viking battles! Join Our Clan Sign up to get first access to new products, sp ..read more

11 Best Viking Gifts For Christmas 2022 DECEMBER 8, 2022 Share: Are you looking for a rustic gift idea for the heathen in your life? A Viking inspired gift is sure to stoke the ancestral fire that burns in the heart of an old soul. Below is our list of the top 11 Viking gift ideas for this Christmas 2022! Join Our Clan Sign up to get first access to new products, special discounts and Viking news ..read more

Were there Viking warrior women? Spoiler alert; Probably not. We’re into movies these days about chicks with swords. We dramatize history with lots of them. They’re always hot... The men around them are always oppressive. Except for the one guy, the love interest, who’s enlightened, in the 21st century, millennial sort of way. It’s all very empowering, but it’s not very historical, especially if the setting is the middle ages. And so it was.. that the meme-sphere lit up last year with the discovery that some warrior bones in Sweden were female except that it wasn’t completely clear on cli ..read more