PPHS World History Immersion

There is a great research potential in the collections of the Museum of Cultural History. Archaeological finds from Norway and collected anthropological materials from all over the world contribute continuously to the growth of the collections and constitute a base for new a presentation of the problem that will be explored.

Norse Mythology for Smart People provides reliable, well-documented information on the enthralling mythology and religion of the Norse and other Germanic peoples. If that’s what you’re looking for, you’ve come to the right place.

Norsk Folkemuseum has comprehensive and diverse collections of artefacts, buildings, photographs, documents and records. These collections represent life and culture in Norway from the 16th Century to the present.

The Icelandic Saga Database is an online resource dedicated to publishing the Sagas of the Icelanders — a large body of medieval Icelandic literature. The sagas are prose histories describing events that took place amongst the Norse and Celtic inhabitants of Iceland during the period of the Icelandic Commonwealth in the 10th and 11th centuries CE.

The Icelandic sagas are believed to have been written in the 13th and 14th centuries CE, perhaps originating in an oral tradition of storytelling. While their facticity and authorship is for the most part unknown, they are a widely recognized gem of world literature thanks to their sparse, succinct prose style and balanced storytelling. The sagas focus largely on history, especially genealogical and family history, and reflect the struggles and conflicts that arose amongst the second and third generations of Norse settlers in medieval Iceland, which was in this time a remote, decentralised society with a rich legal tradition but no organized executive power.

This website contains all the extant Icelandic family sagas. They are accessible in a variety of open formats. The texts use modernised Icelandic orthography. Translations into English and other languages are also made available where these exist in the public domain.

Text passages describing Viking raids

Includes all eras of history, texts, sagas, maps and illustrations

Full text and scholarly journals in world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy

Art and Multimedia from Public Collections. Includes the Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art and documents, sculpture and decorative objects from around the world.

Description of Viking burial site archeological digs in Britain

Information about the lasting impact of Viking Culture on British history

Assistant Editor Morgan Kay, Fordham University

The Online Medieval Sources Bibliography provides detailed information about modern editions - both in print and online - of medieval primary sources. Our goal is to help users find the sources and editions that are most suited to their needs.

British History Online is a collection of nearly 1300 volumes of primary and secondary content relating to British and Irish history, and histories of empire and the British world. BHO also provides access to 40,000 images and 10,000 tiles of historic maps of the British Isles. Some items are by subscription only.

Full text and scholarly journals in world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy

Artwork from all eras of history.