About Us
The Centre for the Study of the Viking Age fosters, develops and coordinates research into all aspects of the Viking Age, with special emphasis on Scandinavian contacts with the British Isles, and on literary and linguistic sources for the period. The Centre encourages postgraduate study at MA and PhD level, and organises the Norse and Viking Seminar.
Recent and current projects focus on issues of migration and identity in the Viking Age, including an ESF-funded exploratory workshop on Migration and Transcultural Identities in the Viking Age, the AHRC-funded Viking Identities Network, and the network for Disease, Disability and Medicine in Early Medieval Europe. The Centre is also home to the British Academy-funded English Dictionary of Runic Inscriptions in the Younger Futhark.
Viking Masculinities
24 April 2010
The Universities of Nottingham, Birmingham and Leicester are proud to announce the sixth Midlands Viking Symposium, an event designed to bring together academics and non-academics interested in Viking Studies working in the Midlands. Talks will be given by specialists from a variety of disciplines whose work contributes to research in Viking Studies in Scandinavia, the British Isles and further afield.
