Pagans and Christians
2018-01-19
By Professor Lesley Abrams How helpful are the terms ‘pagan’ and ‘Christian’, or the concept of the ‘conversion to Christianity’, in explaining the political, religious, and cultural transformation experienced in Scandinavian England in the ninth and tenth centuries? The Viking armies who came to Britain were initially followers of potentially diverse forms of paganism, with …
Vikings in your Vocabulary
2018-01-05
By Dr Richard Dance What do English words like egg, husband, law, leg, sky and window have in common? And what about words used in the dialects of northern and eastern England, like lug (‘ear’), mun (‘shall, must’) and rammy (‘disgusting’)? The answer is that all these probably came into early English from Old Norse, …
Danelaw Saga: Bringing Vikings Back to the East Midlands – a student’s view
2018-01-02
By Kayla Kemhadjian The Danelaw Saga exhibition housed in the Weston Gallery at Nottingham Lakeside Arts may seem like a small addition to the Bringing Vikings Back to The East Midlands project. However, intricately weaved in a room which typically houses manuscripts is a wealth of information about how the Vikings shaped the East Midlands. …
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