Since 2013, the largest infrastructure project in modern Norwegian history has granted a team of more than 40 archaeologists an extraordinary glimpse…
A Viking ship burial has been discovered at the site of Gjellestad in south-eastern Norway. It was first identified during a ground…
Down on the quayside in front of Oslo’s fabulously functional City Hall, a small queue of tourists gather to catch the ferry…
Gustafson’s excavation had provided an extraordinary window into the material culture and public appearance of the world represented by the Norse Sagas…
The jagged coast of Northern Scandinavia is littered with strange stone-lined pits once thought to be ancient graves. In fact, they are…
There is a field in Veien where horses’ teeth have been found in cooking pits, and a series of massive long-houses have…
In August 1903 Gabriel Gustafson, director of the University Museum of Antiquities in Kristiana (now Oslo), received an unexpected visitor. The caller,…
Iron-Age people had a conscious relationship with objects from earlier times that connected them to their past, says Olle Hemdorff at the…
Ohthere was a Norwegian seafarer, who visited the court of Saxon King Alfred during the 850s AD. He was an honoured guest,…
Kaupang in Skiringssal (Kaupang Excavation Project Publication Series, Volume 1 – Norske Oldfunn XXII) edited by Dagfinn Skre Aarhus University Press, £39.95…
Two boys discover artefacts dating between AD 900-1100 Tromsø, Norway…