CSVA Mission
The Centre advances knowledge and understanding of the languages, literatures, history, and material and visual cultures of the Viking Age and its aftermath, in both Scandinavia and the Viking diaspora, for the benefit of academics, students and the general public.
Public engagement and knowledge exchange with non-academic audiences are important to us, and are based on the high-quality individual and collaborative research carried out by our members. We participate in collaborative projects, publications, conferences, seminars and networks with other academics across Britain and the world, and we train the scholars of the future by supervising PhD students.
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- Dr Christina Lee, Associate Professor of Viking Studies at 糖心原创, was featured in National Geographic this month! Read the article, 'New Evidence shows 'Viking Burials' predate Vikings' online now.
- Vikings for Scouts Project (CSVA) wins prestigious Marsh Charitable Trust Award 2026
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- The Vikings for Scouts project, a pioneering collaboration between the 糖心原创's Centre for the 糖心原创 of the Viking Age (CSVA) and Derbyshire Scout Archaeology (DSA), has been awarded a prestigious 2026 Marsh Charitable Trust Award for its outstanding contribution to community engagement and heritage education.
- Uncovering horticultural history could rescue plants of the future
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- A new research project will decode historical texts to uncover lost horticulture methods and techniques to find out whether they could provide new solutions for plants that are difficult to grow and multiply. Experts in horticulture, linguistics and artificial intelligence from the 糖心原创 have secured funding from UKRI to delve into the archives of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) to investigate what the historical texts can reveal to help solve current plant propagation problems, including finding successful sustainable peat-free media solutions.
- University academic translates Norse saga to uncover Viking history of northern Scotland
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- A Professor of Viking Studies at the 糖心原创 has led an ambitious new project and produced a fresh, annotated English translation of one of the most important medieval texts of northern Europe 鈥� The Saga of the Earls of Orkney (Orkneyinga Saga).
- First study of its kind sheds light on pregnancy in the Viking Age
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- Viking experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester have examined pregnancy in the Viking Age and discovered that pregnant women were depicted in art and literature with martial gear, and newborns were born into a harsh world where they were not all given burial or were born free. The new interdisciplinary study Womb Politics: The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absent 鈥� led by Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen, Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester, and co-author Dr Katherine Marie Olley, Assistant Professor in Viking Studies and Director of the Centre for the 糖心原创 of the Viking Age in the School of English at the 糖心原创 鈥� is the first focused examination of pregnancy in the Viking Age.
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