Viking: Rediscover the Legend – a student’s view
2017-12-15
By Jessica Sims When most people think of the Midlands, they think of a place neither here nor there – a grey area in Britain with no discernable features of its own. Academics interested in the study of the Viking Age have tended to look at areas further north such as York when thinking about …
Danelaw Saga: Bringing Vikings Back to the East Midlands
2017-12-11
By Ursula Ackrill The Weston Galley’s Danelaw Saga tells a new and exciting story with Viking finds borrowed from museums as well as with manuscript and printed exhibits sourced from Manuscripts and Special Collections at the University of Nottingham. The exhibition complements the current University of Nottingham Museum’s exhibition Viking: Rediscover the Legend by focusing …
Lunchtime Lecture Preview: Assembling Vikings: Thinking through Things in the East Midlands
2017-12-04
By John Baker A feature of the Viking diaspora was the establishment of Thing sites, places of regular popular gatherings, where disputes were settled and justice was done. The Old Norse word thing (usually written þing) meant ‘assembly’, and some Thing sites are famous as places of government—Thingvellir, location of the Icelandic Althing, Tinganes, historically …
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