The high tide bore the Sea Stallion away from Ireland with 200-400 nautical miles aheadWe have the opportunity for the longest single voyage in the Sea Stallion's existence in the next few days. The Viking Ship Museum's research project, the "Sea Stallion from Glendalough", left the little port of Wicklow in Ireland at high tide shortly before noon today. The ship had been waiting three days in Wic...

Treasure including a Viking gold finger ring and a silver buckle have been found in Notts.An hearing was held on the finds yesterday at Nottingham Coroner's Court.The 14th Century silver 'D' shaped buckle was found on land near Weston near Newark.The ring was found by metal detector enthusiast Bill Severn on land at South Muskham near Newark last April. After the hearing, the 67-year-old from Codno...

Archeologists are due to start digging in Tjarnargata in the centre of Reykjavík in so called Althingisreitur or Althingi's spot right by Iceland's parliament, Althingi."We have discovered many interesting remains there. It could be possible remains from the settlement age or the Middle Ages, periods we have never found many remains from." Gardar Gudmunsson an archeologist at the Icelandic Institu...

A new interpretation of Grænlandslýsing ,a script by Ívar Bárdarson, suggests that Hvalseyrarbær an old structure from the middle ages situated in Qaqortoq in Greenland is in fact the old Þjóðhildarstadir. Þjóðhildarstadir was the Norwegian king's manor in Greenland in the Middle Ages.Belief has it that Þjóðhildarstadir were in Kambstadafjördur in Greenland, but no archeological fact...

A BOOK by a Castletown author providing the first detailed view of Viking settlements in the Island will be published on July 1.It is written by a leading specialist in the study of Viking archaeology, Sir David Wilson — who was director of the British Museum between 1977 and 1992.It is thanks to his parents' decision to move to the Island more than 60 years ago that he developed an interest in V...