Vikings adventure in The Netherlands

©Tamara Bakx

Hail Vikings,

Last Sunday I was at an exhibition about dragons. I know you might wonder what happened to you? Dragons and not Vikings. The funny fact the dragon is in a few myths from Vikings there are dragons. The dad of Aslaug (Sigurd) killed a dragon (Fafnir). There are three dragons known  Níðhöggr, Jörmungandr, and Fafnir and a dragon killed by Frotho 1 (this myth used by Tolkien and Peter Jackson in The Hobbit).  In this exhibition, they told a few things about the dragon in Europe. Did you know that the dragon head (Dragonhead) placed on boats to please the gods, to expel evil during their journeys and scare the other boats.

In this museum, they also had the history of Limburg and surely they had a few Viking items. I will post a link to the pictures I took from both the dragon exhibition and the history of Limburg pictures.

©Tamara Bakx

In Nijmegen, I went to see the house of history of Nijmegen. They have found lots of treasures from the roman emperor and doubt that Vikings have been there. Although the last decade, they came back from it because they needed to be there because surrounded by a river that ends in Germany.

As I said before in the Netherlands they have denied a long time that there were no Vikings at all because we couldn’t proof it. We have several findings now that they indeed lived, worked, and raid here.

Pictures

Dragon:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jinkskr7i01ughg/AACSdvBuuoV1MaRtVz65Rs0Fa?dl=0
Vikings inLimburg: 
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zqy92lag9ruw47o/AAA2UcedDVMppZ70jakPN9rpa?dl=0

Other links

Nidhogg

http://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/giants/nidhogg/
http://www.northernpaganism.org/shrines/nidhogg/gifts.html

Jorgumand

http://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/giants/jormungand/
http://mythical-and-paranormal-blog.blogspot.nl/2012/03/jormungandr-world-serpent.html

Fafnir

http://journal.finfar.org/
http://www.britannica.com/topic/Fafnir

One Vikings saga to rule them all

Photo credit: Jonathan Hession

I was doing research for my portrait/review on Earl Haraldson and then I came across the Saint’s Saga of Olaf Haraldson. The longest and most completed one of that time.

I was looking for the answer did Earl Haraldson and Ragnar came across each other in that saga. I couldn’t find it. After a while I read the whole saga I found another thing to write about. The names of the main characters of History Vikings The only two I could find where Athelstan and Bjorn. But the support characters I could all find in the saga.

So if you want to know more about the support characters or three of the next main characters go and find out the saga yourself. I will name them for you. Who is there to find and which season:

Season 1                             Season 2                             Season 3

Knut                                   Halfdan                               Kalf

Leif                                    Sigvard

Bjorn                                  Ivar

Arne                                   Horik

Thorstein

Athelstan

We only need to read one saga to rule them all.

So if you want to know more I want to advices you to go and see the saga.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/heim/08stolaf.htm