Centre for the Study of the Viking Age

The CSVA is going on summer holiday! We’ll be back with more news on our research and events in September. Until then we leave you with some beautiful views of Shetland (details in ALT text), courtesy of @em-ehx.bsky.social, who recently completed her fieldwork there. #PhDLife #summerholiday

We had such a good time at #IMCLeeds that we are already gearing up for next year. Check out our #callforpapers on #bodies and #community #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #WhatsHistory

If you enjoyed our roundtable reflecting on Old Norse pedagogy in June then join us on Saturday 24 October 2026 for more pedagogical musings at the Annual Meeting of TOEBI. For more information and to register visit: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/even... #medievalsky #oldenglish

🎉WE WON!!🎉We're so proud to announce that the CSVA's 'Vikings for Scouts', an IAA-funded collaboration with the Derbyshire Scout Archaeology Team, has won Community Archaeology Project of the Year at the CBA's 2026 Marsh Awards! Well done to the whole 'Vikings for Scouts' team for their hard work!

This 🔥hot Norse Summer🔥 has already gifted us some incredible finds! For more details, see the ALT text for each picture. The excitement around these finds goes to show just how relevant the Viking Age still us nowadays. We can't wait to see what else the summer will bring!

New blog post is live! Read about how our very own Matthew Welton created his newest poetry anthology, Small Birds Singing. Now available on Words on Words, our School of English Blog - open.substack.com/pub/uonengli...

Still looking for your perfect #IMC2027 session? Call for Papers for 'A Disordered Community: Evil and Antisocial Disruption in Medieval Literature' organised by the CSVA's Ellie Wilson. Submit your 250-word abstracts by 24 August 2026! #medievalsky

A watery trespasser, featuring Jayne Carroll of @englishplacenames.bsky.social and @uonenglish.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#IMC2026 may be over but the calls for papers for #IMC2027 are just beginning! Call for Papers on Cognitive Communities in the North Sea Zone, organised by the CSVA's @smasters2001.bsky.social and @jessiesummerhayes.bsky.social. Submit your 200-word abstracts by 26 August 2026! #medievalsky

Leeds IMC 2027 CALL FOR PAPERS @jonasza4.bsky.social and I are organising more sessions for next year's Leeds IMC - Check out our CfP here on "Communities of the Realm: Shaping Thirteenth Century Norway"

another Postdoc opportunity! 🦴🔬 Join Steve Ashby and @york-bioarch.bsky.social to study Northern European combs & combmaking using #ZooMS #proteomics. Seeking someone with proteomics/chemistry experience #viking and or #archaeology knowledge a plus. Apply: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

From summer schools to summer conferences—great to see so many of our PGRs presenting @imc-leeds.bsky.social last week. Meanwhile, CSVA PhD candidate Ellie Wilson is fresh from the Árni Magnússon Manuscript Summer School and brought back some stunning shots of Iceland we couldn’t wait to share!

New chapter by Dr Steve Ashby tieing up his work (with Dr Jessie Hendy and Dr Sam Greeves @york-bioarch.bsky.social) on the origins of hair combs found across early-medieval Europe with ongoing research on trapping, travel and trade in upland Scandinavia. More soon! www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

For those already excited for #IMC2027, @marycoconnor.bsky.social and I are organizing sessions on 'The Literary Communities of Old Norse and Icelandic Romance'! 🌟If you would like to get involved, please submit a 250 word abstract and short bio by 18th September 🌟 #medievalsky

Here's one of my favourites by the PlaceName team at Nottingham Uni storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6544...

One step closer! We’re thrilled to announce that Vikings for Scouts, our collaboration with the Derbyshire Scouts Archaeology Team, has now made the shortlist for Community Archaeology Project of the Year at the CBA's 2026 Marsh Awards. 🎉🎉🎉 @archaeologyuk.bsky.social @uonenglish.bsky.social

🎉Meet the 2026 Marsh Community Archaeology Awards Nominees - including the CSVA's Vikings for Scouts project!

The Museum of Cultural History @uio.no is hiring a PhD candidate in Nordic #Archaeology, linked to the museum’s research on the #VikingAge. As icing on the cake, you’ll be working in the environment of the new Museum of the Viking Age, part of MCH, opening in 2027! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Our reading groups and seminars may be over for this academic year but we're gearing up for a busy summer of research! First off, the CSVA's Dr Kate Olley will be in Munich next week @lmu.de addressing the Institut für Nordische Philologie! #LMU #medievalsky

Attention early medievalists! This workshop on coastal communities organised by Marco Panato & Irene Bavuso is being held in Nottingham (hybrid format via Teams) on 20/21 June. All welcome.

If you're super jealous that you missed @xpi.bsky.social talking about #needlework patterns based on #marginalia, here's the video! #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory

In a new exhibition in the Nationalmuseet in Copenhagen, "Vølvens Varsel", this silver mount is believed to depict Loki wrapped in his son's intestines. Peter Pentz believes it's a rare early depiction of the god. It's c. 2.5cm, and was found near Skanderborg 4 years ago. www.dr.dk/nyheder/sene...

A summary of our latest conference at Leeds is now live on the Norse in the North website. Follow the link to read!: norseinthenorth.wordpress.com/2026-leeds/

The Fryske Akademy (Leeuwarden, NL) and the Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (Cambridge, UK) are offering a one-year paid fellowship for a researcher to explore the relations between Frisia and Great Britain, Ireland and/or Scandinavia in the early Middle Ages (c. 400–1100). Appy by June 28th.

Only a week to go until the CSVA summer seminar! Join us on Tuesday 9 June, 5-6pm, in Trent B40 for a roundtable discussion with Dr Chris Callow, Dr Christina Lee, Dr Alex Wilson and Dr Kate Olley on ‘Teaching the Vikings: Reflections on Pedagogical Practice in Old Norse-Viking Teaching'.

The Norse in the North 2026 (Mind and Body) was held on 15th May 2026 at the University of Leeds and organized by Natalie Hopwood, Daniel Coultas, Sif Brookes, and Chris Latham. Please click below to read about this fantastic conference funding by the SSNS Conference Grant.

Looking forward to the Nottingham Medieval Studies Lecture! Join us on Friday 12 June, 5-6pm, in Trent B46 when Dr Paul Cavill will be speaking on 'Names and Texts: Interactions and Interpretations'. A wonderful way to round off the term! Register, completely free, at forms.office.com/e/YPVdaX1M6y

These @historyscotland.bsky.social webinars are great events and Tom will be well worth listening to.

The joys of doing fieldwork in the Faroes! Check out this beautiful shot of Múlarfossar in Gásadalur by CSVA doctoral student @em-ehx.bsky.social, who is currently visiting the Islands, researching saga landscapes for her thesis. #faroeislands #PhDlife

What does Maldon have to do with Mordor? Find out in this recent article from Samuel Masters, current post-graduate student with the CSVA, available open access in the latest issue of Mythlore: dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol... #TolkienTuesday #TolkienTrewsday

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRO233/d... one year post in Old Norse #medievalsky

The SHR is pleased to announce the call for the 2026 Early Career Researcher Article Prize. The winning entry/entries will be published in the journal and receive a £500 award. The deadline is Tuesday, 8 September at 5pm.

Map of early medieval ship burials across northern Europe. Monumental expressions of maritime mobility, culture rooted in sea travel connected people around the North Sea and created new elites that, in time, formed kingdoms. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... #MedievalMonday 🏺 #Archaeology

Thank you to all today's speakers at the 2026 Midlands Viking Symposium and special thanks to @chriscallow.bsky.social for organising! From Poetic Polyphony to Descents into Hell via some isotopic analysis on the way - it's been a fantastic day of papers! #medievalsky

#JobKlaxon We are looking for a permanent Lecturer in Global Medieval History to join us at @leedsims.bsky.social! Applications due 1 June. Happy to talk to anyone interested in an informal capacity. If you are in Kalamazoo, find me at #ICMS! #leedsmedievalstudies jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

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Final reminder that registration for the 2026 Midlands Viking Symposium closes today at 5pm! Sign up now to join us online this Friday 15 May, 10-2.15pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sagas-the-...

Please join us next week for an online talk by @kakapitan.bsky.social Link below to register: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Congratulations @rorynaismith.bsky.social for a wonderful book launch last night! Very compelling discussion of Offa and the Mercian supremacy. I now want to spend my summer walking Offa’s dyke and revisiting the British Museum to see the Mercian gold coin once (mis)attributed to Uther Pendragon!

Life and Landscape Research Showcase held at the University of Nottingham on Saturday 13th June is now open for registration! We have a very exciting day of papers from nine Early Career Researchers and keynote lecture by @susan-kilby.bsky.social. Please share, this event is open to all!

New on the channel, @djbirishhistory.bsky.social talking to us about #medieval #Irish #literature, #disability, and #impairment. #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory

You have 3 days left to register for #IMC2026 before the standard registration deadline on Friday 01 May 2026 at 23:59 (BST) GMT+1 👀 Register here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/register/ Any questions or problems, please email imc@leeds.ac.uk #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

Officially released TODAY!!!

Come take a jaunt through a kirkyard with me… perhaps we’ll see some runes! open.substack.com/pub/jasminhi...

Reminder that our final CSVA reading group of the term is today, 1-2pm, Trent A49! Join us as we discuss two articles: Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson and others’ “A Female Viking Warrior Confirmed by Genomics” and Neil Price and others’ “Viking Warrior Women? Reassessing Birka Chamber Grave Bj.581.”

For anyone in/near Nottingham who wants to hear about Offa of Mercia next month … checkout.square.site/merchant/MLC...

It's a month until the 2026 Midland Viking Symposium on 15 May. Sign up here! This year it's free, it's online and it's on a Friday. Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sagas-the-...