Norse Legends

Viking Navigation: How Norse Explorers Sailed Without Compasses

Viking Navigation: How Norse Explorers Sailed Without Compasses

By The StormCrow May 1, 2025

Discover how Vikings navigated the open seas without compasses using sunstones, stars, bird patterns, and ancient oral traditions. Explore their remarkable techniques and legendary voyages

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The Viking Longship: A truly Engineering Marvel

The Viking Longship: A truly Engineering Marvel

By The StormCrow Apr 24, 2025

Discover how Viking longships revolutionized medieval seafaring. Learn about their innovative shipbuilding, unmatched speed, and role in exploration, trade, and raids across Europe and beyond.

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Raids and Beyond: Viking Influence Across Europe

Raids and Beyond: Viking Influence Across Europe

By The StormCrow Apr 10, 2025

Discover how Viking culture shaped Europe beyond the raids—exploring their lasting influence on England, Ireland, France, and Eastern Europe through language, cities, trade, and royal dynasties. A fascinating look at...

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Viking Warfare A Glimpse into the Norse Battlegrounds

Viking Warfare A Glimpse into the Norse Battlegrounds

By The StormCrow Nov 21, 2024

The seafaring Norse people are often remembered for their daring raids, exploration and settlement during the Viking Age. While their navigation and exploration skills are widely celebrated, their prowess in...

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Viking Luxury tastes and Silver Hoards

Viking Luxury tastes and Silver Hoards

By The StormCrow Aug 7, 2024

For a long part of human history silver was more valuable than gold, and the Norse peoples and Vikings were always keen in showing their love for Silver Jewelry, the most luxurious...

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The Wild Hunt

The Wild Hunt

By The StormCrow Dec 29, 2023

The Wild Hunt is a well-known myth: A ghostly leader and his group of hunters and hounds flying through the cold night sky during the winter solstice, as the winds...

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From Thrall to Jarl, the Viking Social Structure

From Thrall to Jarl, the Viking Social Structure

By The StormCrow Nov 21, 2023

Viking society was highly stratified, a class division created by the God Heimdall himself. Learn more about the Viking social classes here!

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The Viking Siege of Paris part 2 of 2: Rollo the Walker and the Second Siege in the year 885

The Viking Siege of Paris part 2 of 2: Rollo the Walker and the Second Siege in the year 885

By The StormCrow Apr 21, 2023

Forty years after the first siege of Paris, another large Viking fleet of a few hundred ships sailed up the Seine. The year is 885, and Rollo leads his Vikings...

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The Viking Siege of Paris part 1 of 2: Ragnar Lothbrok and the First Siege in the year 845

The Viking Siege of Paris part 1 of 2: Ragnar Lothbrok and the First Siege in the year 845

By The StormCrow Apr 14, 2023

The first siege of Paris was a direct response from the legendary hero Ragnar Lothbrok to the breaking of an oath made by the king of France Charles II. When king...

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Danelaw: When Vikings Ruled England

Danelaw: When Vikings Ruled England

By The StormCrow Jan 13, 2023

In 865, after almost on hundred years of the beginning of the Viking Age, a large Viking army invaded England, and it came to stay. The Great Heathen Army came...

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Vikings in Spain and a Galician Festival in the city of Catoeira

Vikings in Spain and a Galician Festival in the city of Catoeira

By The StormCrow Jul 1, 2022

Viking influence in Spain is extremely underrated, but the city of Catoira has something to say about it.  Every year, on the first Sunday in August, the replica of an...

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Rollo of Normandy, from Viking Raider to Lord

Rollo of Normandy, from Viking Raider to Lord

By The StormCrow Sep 10, 2021

The mighty Rollo, first Duke of Normandy, a Viking hero so great that no horse could carry him!

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