Vikings & Skraelings Links

Norse History & Culture

The Viking Answer Lady: An excellent site for collected information and speculation on viking culture. It includes in particular an essay on "Women & Magic in the Sagas", which I have used for the magic system.
Regia Anglorum: Wichamstow Village: A living history museum in England of the viking period, which includes a number of articles on day-to-day life such as "Pastimes of the Vikings".
Hurstwic's "Viking Age History": A viking living history society in New England, which maintains a number of articles on viking life.
Northvegr's "Northern European Studies": A host of complete books including many sagas in English put online by a Norse pagan group.
Vikingsaga PBEM Campaign: A long-running Play-by-Email RPG campaign set in 884, with a number of links as well as inspirational ideas.
Lexicon of Kennings: Hundreds of Norse poetic phrases for battle, swords, and other things -- grouped by topic.
Iceland's Althing History: A brief article on the history of the Althing and Thingvellir.
Viking Heritage Magazine: A general site for a subscription magazine on Viking history.
Medieval Economics: Peter Corless' Pendragon Holdings Essay
Kenneth Hodges' Medieval Prices
The Online Guide to Vikings: A collection of links on various Viking topics.

Here I focus on the more fanciful and intriguing (though unlikely) speculations on the historical Vinland colonies.

Seeking Vinland: An intriguing site devoted to a particular argument that the Vinland settlement was around Cape Cod and Rhode Island, and that the Narragansett tribes were partly descended from Nordic colonists.
Hurstwic's "Speculation and Wishful Thinking": This is a summary of various claims of Norse artifacts in the New England area -- all rather bogus.
The Kensington Runestone: An almost certainly fictional inscribed found in Minnesota, which records it having been set in 1362 by 8 Goths and 22 Norwegians.
The Smithsonian's "Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga": A museum exhibit with an animated intro and maps, focussing on the L'Anse Aux Meadows find.
Vinland Narratives Summary: A footnoted text of the complete Vinland sagas.
Athena Review 1,3: The Vikings in Vinland: A brief article giving an overview of the more factual evidence.
The Viking Trail: General information on the region of Newfoundland around L'Anse Aux Meadows (which has the only substantial archeological claim).
Vikings in the New World: A brief summary of various claims.

First Nations Histories: An selection of comprehensive articles organized by tribe.
The Jesuit Relations: Primary texts of early first contact with natives by Jesuit missionaries.
Specific Tribal Information: Lenni Lenape
Lenni-Lenape
Legends: The New Jersey Devil 1, The New Jersey Devil 2, The New Jersey Devil 3.

National Atlas of the United States: A very handy tool which allows creating geographic-only maps of any part of the U.S. There is only limited resolution, however.
Historical Map Web Sites: A collection of historical maps, useful for finding period maps of the New York / New England region.
USGS Map Ordering: Unfortunately, this is quite laborious.
Local Image Directory: The local directory where I keep a number of images and maps.

J. Hanju Kim <hanjujkim-at-gmail-dot-com>

Last modified: Sat Oct 11 21:59:14 2003