Hurstwic: Viking History

Viking Age History

One of the missions of Hurstwic is to educate the public on topics related to the Viking Age. Hurstwic members make themselves available to universities, schools, museums, and community groups for lectures and demonstrations (such as the museum demonstration shown to the right).

To help the public learn more about Viking age history, we include here links to factual articles written by Hurstwic members. The articles are updated regularly, and we hope to add more articles on a regular basis. A list of some of the references used to create these articles is here. In addition, we have created a short reading list of introductory texts on Viking age topics, for both children and adults.

Daily Living in the Viking Age

Society in the Viking Age

Classes of Society
Women in Norse Society
Laws and Legal Procedures
Honor, Dueling, and Drengskapr
Viking Raids
Norse Lands in the Viking Age
L'Anse aux Meadows: North American Exploration
Speculation and Wishful Thinking: other Norse artifacts in North America
What Happened to the Vikings?

Martial Arts, Shipbuilding, and other Manufacturing in the Viking Age

Language, Literature, and the Arts in the Viking Age

Myths and Religion in the Viking Age

Myths and Religion in Norse Lands

The Hurstwic Library

On-line how-to articles for re-enactors

An Oseberg Tent Reproduction
Thorsbjerg Trouser Reproduction
Viking-era bread recipe
Viking Weapon Test Cuts: a video showing the effects of Viking weapons on flesh and bone

On-line tools for scholars

Books and Videos by Hurstwic authors

Viking Weapons and Combat Techniques (2009)
Icelanders in the Viking Age: The People of the Sagas (2010)
Hurstwic™ Viking Combat Training Volume 1: Fundamentals of Viking Training (DVD 2012)
Hurstwic™ Viking Combat Training Volume 2: Advanced Viking Training (DVD 2013)
Hurstwic™ Viking Combat Training: Viking Fighting Moves from the Sagas (DVD 2013)

Hurstwic Viking combat training DVD volume 1

Hurstwic Viking combat training DVD volume 2

Hurstwic Viking combat training DVD volume 3

The Newsletter of Hurstwic, an irregular newsletter with short, informative articles on Viking-age topics, published by Hurstwic, LLC.

fall 2012

summer 2012

spring 2012

Notes For You, the reader of the Hurstwic pages

References for further study
Primary Sources used by scholars to increase our knowledge of the Viking Age
Cautions and Warnings
What Does The Word Viking Mean?

In creating these pages, we've strived to use materials that we have either created ourselves, that we believe fall in the category of "fair use", or that we believe to be in the public domain. We ask that any copyright holders who feel their intellectual property is being used improperly to contact us so that we can either make proper arrangements to use the material, or so that we can remove the material in question.