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Interview: The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women by Nancy Marie Brown
In this interview, World History Encyclopedia is joined by American author Nancy Marie Brown, who is talking to us about her new book The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women. You can find the entire interview on our...
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Europe at the Peace of Westphalia, 1648
A map illustrating the situation in Europe after the Peace of Westphalia was signed in Osnabrück and Münster between May and October 1648. The two treaties ended the Thirty Years’ War (initially a war between various Protestant and Catholic...
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The Snaptun Stone
The Viking Age Snaptun stone was carved around 1000 CE and shows a face with stitched-up lips, which reminds of a story preserved in the Prose Edda where the Norse god's Loki’s lips are sewn up. As such, it is usually thought to be one of...
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The Devil
Portrait of the Devil, Codex Gigas, f. 290r., created in the early 13th century CE in Bohemia (modern-day Czech Republic).
National Library of Sweden, Stockholm.
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Odin on Sleipnir (Tjängvide image stone)
The Tjängvide image stone dating to the Viking Age found in Gotland, Sweden and probably showing Odin on his horse Sleipnir (or otherwise a dead man arriving at Odin's hall of Valhalla) on the middle-right.
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The Ramsund Runestone
The Ramsund carving in Södermanland, Sweden, dated to the 11th-century CE. The runestone depicts scenes from the legend of Sigurd the dragon slayer: Sigurd sitting naked in front of the fire preparing the heart of the dragon Fafnir for...
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Altuna Rune Stone
The Altuna rune stone, showing the fishing trip of Thor when he fights the Midgard Serpent, Jörmungandr, Altuna, Uppland, Sweden.
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Title Page of the Handbook of the Christian Soldier by Erasmus
The title page of the 1555 CE edition of Handbook of the Christian Soldier (Enchiridion Militis Christiani) by the Netherlandish Renaissance scholar Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1469-1536 CE). (Skokloster Castle, Sweden)
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Rök Runestone
An inscription using cipher runes, the Elder Futhark, and the Younger Futhark, on the 9th-century Rök Runestone in Sweden.
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The Sutton Hoo Helmet
The Sutton Hoo helmet from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, Mound 1, England, late 500s to early 600. This is one of the only four complete helmets that survive from Anglo-Saxon England. It has been painstakingly reconstructed from the shattered...
