Viking Artifact - Trondheim
A main goal in my trip was to see actual Viking age artifacts. I wanted to get an idea of how Rorik and his people lived, to be able to describe his world with some degree of accuracy.
In addition to Nidaros Cathedral and Sverresborg in Trondheim, I stopped by the Museum of Natural History housed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology to see their exhibition of artifacts.
It was richly rewarding to see these artifacts in person!
And you know, only 5% of Trondheim has been excavated. Which means endless knowledge remains to be discovered!
I’ve loaded pictures of these artifacts to Flickr. Click below to see them, or to visit the museum websites. And as always, feel free to use or republish any of the photos that you find helpful. Please mention somewhere that they were taken by Dawna Rand in researching Odin’s End.
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January 21, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Fairlee Winfield
I looked at the entire set of museum photos, Dawna. Spectacular. Interesting for me because it seems there is so much made of wood and metal. I’m researching Greenland Norse for my next after this one book, and they had no wood or metal after the first 100 years or so. Everything had to be bone or stone or turf.
And the religious artifacts! So much resource devoted to this. A burden for the Greenlanders.
BTW, that cat in the medieval village. They got it wrong. That’s no Norwegian Forest Cat. See my blog.
Have fun girl! What a great trip you had.