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Centre for the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ of the Viking Age
CSVA

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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About us

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Research projects

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Publications

 
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Public engagement

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Events

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Resources

 

News

  • University academic translates Norse saga to uncover Viking history of northern Scotland
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    A Professor of Viking Studies at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ has led an ambitious new project and produced a fresh, annotated English translation of one of the most important medieval texts of northern Europe – 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 – 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 ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ of the Viking Age in the School of English at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ – is the first focused examination of pregnancy in the Viking Age.
  • Viking Leicestershire published
  • Professor Judith Jesch Made British Academy Fellow
  • 16th Annual Midlands Viking Symposium - Registration Now Open
    Description
    The 16th Annual Midlands Viking Symposium will take place at the University of Birmingham on Saturday 25th April 2020.
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Centre for the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ of the Viking Age

Trent Building
The ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´
University Park

telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 5900
fax: +44 (0) 115 951 5924
email: csva@nottingham.ac.uk