Viking and Medieval Norse Studies Programme @oldnorse.bsky.social International Nordic Master’s programme, offering an interdisciplinary approach to Viking and Medieval Scandinavia.
oldnorse.is
ksbarton @ksbarton.bsky.social Author of Viking stories of love and adventure
Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social Ferðamaðr studying Old Norse language, Scandi myth, runes, and reconstructing dýrð gýgja from reconstructed sources. ᚢᛁᛋ ᛁᚴᛁ ᛁᛚᛦ gygratru.neocities.org
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Katie Urquhart @katie-urquhart.bsky.social Commissioning Editor at Yale University Press London. Commissioning medieval and early modern history. (views my own)
Chris Cave @chris-cave.bsky.social Writer, blogger, and madman with a box. For proof, read my science fiction novel Transforming Heroes. For my book: https://books2read.com/u/496dGk
Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk Antiquity is a bimonthly review of world archaeology edited by Professor Robin Skeates. Please be aware that we sometimes share relevant images of human remains. https://antiquity.ac.uk/
@heatherodox.bsky.social @heatherodox.bsky.social 
@emerp.bsky.social @emerp.bsky.social 
Trix @trixranderson.bsky.social Archaeologist at North Yorkshire Historic Environment Record: special interest in Viking-Age Britain and the Great Heathen Army
Astri Bryde @bryderiet.bsky.social Textile historian, textile artist, educator and reader. And yes, I have a cat.
Doc McCullough @marginalviking.bsky.social Archaeologist and historian. Museum Director. Musings on public history, Vikings/Norse, Greenland, archaeology of religion, mythology, and magic. Opinions my own, etc.
Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@MarginalViking
Richard Purkiss @richardpurkiss.bsky.social Early medievalist. English society, law, landscape c. 600–1100. Book in progress on c10–11 East Anglia.
Gelmir @gelmirproject.bsky.social Revisiting Early Medieval Scandinavia.
A project by Jonas Lau Markussen and Connor Benson.
gelmir.com
Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social Medievalist at the University of Birmingham, fan of Iceland, Vikings, running and other things
Megan Formanek @meganformanek.bsky.social Author of the Viking Trading Lands series.
Dramatic historical adventure!
www.meganformanek.com
Bite-sized Viking history videos on YouTube Shorts @Megan.Formanek
UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social The UHI Institute for Northern Studies is a hub for world-class research and teaching on all aspects of the culture, heritage, and history of the Highlands and Islands, including their wider connections across the world.
Daniel @danclaggett.bsky.social Archaeologist | PhD Candidate | Vikings, Boats, Burials!
Flinders University
Doesn't use AI. I write in my own, special, clunky way and you'd all miss it if I didn't
Rosie Bonté @rosiebonte.bsky.social Academic publisher @Brepols.bsky.social specialising in archaeology and history. British living in France. Sometimes writes about Vikings and goes digging in holes for old things. She/her
Arne Abel Stamnes @drstamnes.bsky.social Archaeologist dabbling with geophysical methods, heritage management, GIS modelling and various forms of remote sensing. Hobby jazz trombone player. Norwegian living in Denmark. Sometimes books flight tickets as Dr. Stamnes
Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.eurosky.social Danish #archaeologist living in in Stavanger, Norway. FLO for Rogaland County, case officer, project coordinator. Working in the trenches of #archaeology. Views are entirely my own and yes, I do tend to spend all my vacations in Scotland.
Jane Kershaw @jk-viking.bsky.social Gad Rausing Assoc Prof. of Viking-Age Archaeology, Oxford
Community Archaeology North CIC @cancic.bsky.social Unearthing History Together. www.cancic.com Community landscape archaeology group. Formerly Appleton Area Archaeology Project - now a CIC. Dr Jane Harrison, Sarah Miles, Kathryn Murphy @sarahmiles.bsky.social @kmurphster.bsky.social
The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social Megaliths and✨SO MUCH✨more.
Browse our🗿WORLDWIDE 📜 ancient site 🗺️ map/database/gallery. 🪨 Human prehistory🦣 to🏺1100CE 🏛️ Andy B posting✨
Main site: https://www.megalithic.co.uk
More: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/linktree/
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
@biarvecc.bsky.social @biarvecc.bsky.social Medieval Archaeologist + Early Modern Historian x post war immigration specialist 🤸🍝⚽️🏺📚Vikings, Pre-Conquest eras and Plantagenets⚔️
Hannah E @hspevans.bsky.social 🏴 PhD student @irishinstitute.bsky.social vikings, women & textiles
Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social Climate, biodiversity, heritage & archaeology.
Co-chair Climate Change Specialist Group of IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. UHI PhD student researching Viking/Norse birds. Trustee ICOMOS-USA. #HeritageAdapts #archaeobirds #zooarchaeology
Simon Trafford @simonjptrafford.bsky.social Early medievalist at IHR, Univ. of London, with a current research focus on water and human immersions. Also ethnicity, identity, migration and modern medievalisms. Regrettably likely to propose a lovely long walk given half a chance.
Cat Spencer @catjarman.bsky.social 
Dr Matt Firth @mattfirth.bsky.social Research Fellow @ Flinders Uni. Early English Queens, 850-1000 (https://t.ly/Q395d); Remembering England: Cultural Memory in the Sagas of Icelanders (https://t.ly/So2-E); & Pre-Conquest History and its Medieval Reception (https://t.ly/jeqql) all out now.
Dr Felix Lummer @viglundur.bsky.social PhD in Old Nordic Religion and Belief, currently teaching a course of the same name at the University of Iceland. Research interests include ONR, supernatural beings, emotion studies, the belliphonic, and translation studies.
Ann Williams @anwl.bsky.social Professional historian (tenth- and eleventh-century England), also a witch, with interests both in ancient rituals and modern practice. Lifelong socialist passionate about ecology and local resilience, member of the Transition community. 
Harriet Soper @hattiesoper.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Literature @bristolunienglish.bsky.social. Interested in OE, ME & ON, currently working on play 🧸 The Life Course in Old English Poetry (CUP, 2024). She/ her. Views own.
Kristin Bornholdt Collins @bornholdtcollins.bsky.social Numismatist ⁘ Vikings in the Irish Sea ⁘ Hiberno-Scandinavian and Hiberno-Manx coinage ⁘ intersection and overlap of bullion and coin, etc. ⁘ author of SCBI 73: Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man.
Dr Tom Morcom @tommorcom.bsky.social Associate Lecturer in Old Norse Language and Literature, UCL
Pre-modern narrative theory, the sagas, other bits and bobs.
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/97142-tom-morcom/about
Fraser McNair @ralphtorta.bsky.social Medievalist, blogger, charter enthusiast. Currently working as a research fellow on the Music In The Shadows project at the University of Nottingham. Read my blog at:
https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/
Hannah Armstrong @hjparmstrong.bsky.social ECR | Medieval(ism)ist | Old Norse, North Atlantic Islands, Place and Travel Writing | Access and Engagement | She/Her.
Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social A/Prof Medieval Literature, Flinders | Visiting Fellow, St Cross College, Oxford | Lead CI ARC DP23: First English Speakers | DP23: Finding Friendship in Old English Literature | PhD TCD | FSA | IAUPE | Beowulf monograph ManchesterUP '26
Steve A @grungeviking.bsky.social Viking archaeologist. Lapsed photographer. Guitars. Bad jokes. Probably too grumpy for Bluesky #pusb
https://youtube.com/@graffitifoxes?si=I__M2PhxmIckzs4J
Hélio Pires @heliuspirus.bsky.social Viking Studies Historian (MA, PhD), author, polytheist, Buddhophile, Pratchett & Python fan, biker, hiker, road & trail runner, ecophile and linguaphile. Astronomy & dinosaur curious. Occasional boomerang thrower and origami maker.
Posts in 🇵🇹 & 🇬🇧
Dr Jasmin Higgs @jaztherunologist.bsky.social Runologist for hire! I’m interested in runic inscriptions, historical linguistics, and writing systems. Currently working on: early medieval inscribed rings.
em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social Landscape and Ecology in Old Norse | Doctoral Researcher, University of Nottingham | Place-Name Enthusiast | she/her
St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social A twelfth-century cathedral built during Viking times in the beautiful Orkney Islands. https://www.orkneymuseums.co.uk/our-museums/st-magnus-cathedral/#:~:text=Welcome%20to%20St%20Magnus%20Cathedral&text=Built%20from%20local%20red%20and,of%20the%20Kingdom
@orkneyarchaeology.bsky.social @orkneyarchaeology.bsky.social Charity set up to support and promote archaeology in and across Orkney.
OrkneyBoreray @orkneyboreray.bsky.social Our Community farms rare Orkney Boreray sheep for mutton/products & saving the breed
Book, The Lost Flock, @chelseagreen
orkneyboreray.com
++welfare, nature #agroecology
Orkney, Scotland
Derek Parrott @dparrott.bsky.social Archaeologist. PhD on Viking Age craft production, oval brooches, and digital modelling. All things animal art, early medieval, and archaeology. Currently based in 🇩🇰
Adam @eblueaxe.bsky.social Archaeologist working in Northern England; specialist in the early medieval. Interested early medieval archaeology, board and PC gaming, miniature modelling, WW2, and most nerdy stuff
Rosanne Parent @rsparent.bsky.social Franco-Ontarian, Wife, Mom of 7, Mémé of 2, PhD Candidate, Hobby Farmer, Knitter. Love #Viking #Medieval #History #Linguistics & #Gàidhlig💕
Sigurd Towrie @orkneyjar.bsky.social Orkney. North of Scotland. Ran Orkneyjar website until 2024, when costs and time became too much. Now divide my time between nessofbrodgar.bsky.social and uhiarchaeology.bsky.social
Dayanna Knight @dayannaknight.bsky.social Illustrator, medievalist, substitute teacher. Commissions open.
Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social Best-selling author | artist | archaeologist | write and teach about #LateAntiquity, #EarlyMedieval, #Hungarians + #Vikings
Views my own. Appears on BBC radio occasionally.
LITTLE KINGDOMS: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Little-Kingdoms-Hardback/p/56542
Mr Darkins @darkinshistory.bsky.social History & Classics teacher living in Argyll. Ancient and early medieval history. Romans, Picts, Scots, Britons, Vikings, with some Classical Greeks thrown in.
https://youtube.com/@cowalhistory7598?si=N5zx4E8ToNVRRwg1
Mercian Migrant @mercianmigrant.bsky.social Enthusiast of early medieval insular stone sculpture and natural history. Former teacher of biology. Born in Mercia; lives in Sussex.
NorseInCork @norseincork.bsky.social Medievalist working on OE, Vikings, ON myth, runes and public history. Professor in the Dept. of English at UCC. Author of creative works 'Norse Myths' and 'Legends of Norse Mythology'.
Nadia Haupt @salmaviking.bsky.social 
Orla Craig @orlacraig.bsky.social Struggles with Galloway on a daily basis, muppets fan account, certified mayo Hater
Dawn Hadley @danelawdawn.bsky.social Professor of Medieval Archaeology. President of the Medieval Settlement Research Group. Research on Vikings, gender, childhood, digital heritage
Julian D Richards @juliandrichards.bsky.social Director, Archaeology Data Service & Heritage Science Data Service; interested in Vikings and Computers, but rarely at the same time
Dr Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir @vanlinduist.bsky.social Adjunct prof in Medieval Icelandic Studies | Project manager at the Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts @mshl-cdha.bsky.social | Researcher @antidote-network.bsky.social |📍 🇮🇸 & 🇨🇿 | Historical Linguist | Víglundur 🐈
Andy Agate @andyagate.bsky.social Archaeologist, ex-Finds Liason Officer for Northumberland and Newcastle, Visiting Fellow Newcastle University.
Making a Warrior @makingawarrior.bsky.social Research project @Oslo/Uppsala/Reykjavík/Copenhagen
Examining viking warriorhood and its representations past and present
Project info: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/projects/making-a-warrior
Viking Comics by Yoav @realmundiriki.bsky.social Old Norse Scholar by night, webcomic creator by night.
I don't get much sleep.
#comicsky #medievalsky #UFOsky
https://hi.academia.edu/YoavTirosh
Ragna's Islands @ragnasislands.bsky.social A project researching the place-names of Orkney & Fair Isle built around a new translation of The Saga of the Earls of Orkney by @judithjesch.bsky.social
Find us at https://nott.ac/placenames
Frida Espolin Norstein @fridanor.bsky.social Archaeologist at Stockholm University, Viking Age, Early Medieval, burial practices 
Natasha Bradley @natashaamberjo.bsky.social AHRC DPhil Student at Lincoln College, Oxford | women in Old Norse translations, hagiographies, and religious texts | Clarendon Scholar | she/her
Danica Ramsey-Brimberg @dcrb.bsky.social Viking Age/Early Medieval Scholar. Coordinator of Digital Engagement for ICMA. Editorial Assistant for Church Archaeology Journal. Co-Host of New Books in Irish Studies. Current MLIS Student.
Dr Rowan English @rowane.bsky.social Archaeologist, PhD on the ivory trade in late antiquity. Also interested in early medieval northwest Europe, circular economies, funerary archaeology, and long-distance interactions of all kinds. 
The Northern Tapestry @northerntapestry.bsky.social Exploring the sagas and stories that link medieval Iceland, Scandinavia & the northern British isles https://northerntapestry.com/
Dr Christina Cowart-Smith @celticist.bsky.social Early medievalist, West Highland fiddler, writer & editor based in London (UK). Occasionally posts sculpture on @ASCorpus.bsky.social. Trustee @gefrintrust.bsky.social. British Museum tour guide.
Marianne Hem Eriksen @thehem.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Archaeology | BBC New Generation Thinker | PI of the Body-Politics project | v slow runner 🇳🇴🇬🇧🇪🇺
Cassidy Croci @cassidycroci.bsky.social Humboldt Research Postdoctoral Fellow, Hosted by the Scandinavian Studies Department at the University of Tübingen. Working on “Routes of Narration: Domestic Travel in the Íslendingasögur”! 🇺🇸➡️🇬🇧➡️🇮🇸➡️🇩🇪
Dr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social Lecturer in Biomolecular & Medieval Archaeology at Edinburgh Uni - data viz & R enthusiast (she/her)
Tom Fairfax @tcfairfax.bsky.social Professional Orkneyinga saga enthusiast | UoN PhD | Reviews Editor, Northern Studies
Kathryn Murphy @kmurphster.bsky.social Archaeologist. GIS, databases & survey. Mostly Romans, but now straying into the Early Medieval. She/Her. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. Wear a mask! 😷
Views my own.
Currently Data Scientist on @remade-uor.bsky.social
Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social Early Medievalist, Pictus obsessus and bronze vessel nerd. 46/282 Munros. With some added Crofting and Common Grazings.
Archaeoptics @archaeoptics.bsky.social Pioneers of 3D laser scanning in Cultural Heritage. Complete digital archive available at http://archive.archaeoptics.co.uk
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association @jaema.bsky.social JAEMA is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal specialising in the history of the early medieval period - from late antiquity to the early eleventh century.
https://aema.org.au/journal/
Emma Brownlee @ecbrownlee.bsky.social Research fellow @GirtonCollege
@UCamArchaeology
Early Medieval Europe | Death & Burial | GIS | Occasional Vikings
She/her
Scottish Society for Northern Studies @northernstudies.bsky.social The Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS) was founded in 1968 to explore the inter-relationships between the Scandinavian, Celtic, and Scottish cultures.
https://ssns.org.uk
Anton Larsson @antonyaolarsson.bsky.social Doctor of Archaeology and project manager at Lödöse Museum, Sweden.
Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social Appalachian academic. Medievalist. Mom. Maker-in-training. Vikings/Women/Labor/ Identity. Chaotic good gnomish bard. She/her. Per uni attorneys: "'opinions expressed here are my own' so it is clear" I am "not representing an official university position.
Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social Howard Williams BSc MA PhD FSA
Aʀᴄʜᴀᴇᴏ𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 Blogger & Vlogger
http://linktr.ee/archaeodeath
NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social The bluesky social media channel for the University of Aberdeen Northern Picts project @northernpicts on Facebook
All things Pictish/early medieval/Aberdeen/Scotland/Archaeology/Hilforts/Digital
Caitlin Ellis @medivalist.bsky.social Medievalist - Vikings, Normans, Britain, Ireland, the North Atlantic and beyond. Reception & Medievalism.
Associate Professor, University of Oslo
North Ages @northages.bsky.social Early medieval northern Britain, taking in Picts, Gaels, Britons, Angles and Norse. On this day, feast days, place-names, archaeology news and book releases. Posts by Dundonian bookworm Craig. https://northages.wordpress.com/
Ny Björn Gustafsson @nybjorn.eurosky.social Swedish archaeologist (PhD, Arch Sci).
Finds specialist (Iron Age through Medieval per.)
Surveyor of islands in the Baltic Sea.
😍LiDAR-spotting!
Works for @raa-se.bsky.social
Papers etc: https://raa.academia.edu/NyBj%C3%B6rnGustafsson
Norselass @norselass.bsky.social Early Medievalist, far traveller, health humanities. Sadly no longer lives next to Robin Hood.
Keith Ruiter @keithruiter.bsky.social Medievalist | likes law, normativity, transgression, & other Viking Age oddities (also has a life outside work) | Senior Lecturer at University of Suffolk | Hon. Assistant Prof at Centre for the Study of the Viking Age | PhD | he/they
Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social In the Woods, & online. #humansecurity, #archaeology, #culture, #Newfoundland, #WPS, #chickens, #navy, #metal, #GenX, #gardens, #books, #food, & #nature, not necessarily in that order.
Megan Kasten @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social She/her. Research Affiliate at the University of Glasgow. Govan Old and OG(H)AM; researching Digital Imaging and Early Medieval Sculpture
Russell Ó Ríagáin @rusticulus-reguli.bsky.social Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, History, University of St Andrews
Own lefty views
Iron Age, late antique, medieval, early-modern archaeologist ⁊ historian; toponomist, sociologist, cartographer, copy-editor; ❤ cats ⁊ books
sé/he/il/er/han
Fiona Campbell-Howes @fortrenn.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Glasgow, researching the early medieval Moray Firthlands in Scotland. Live in Penryn, Cornwall. FSAScot. Posts about early medieval Scottish history and archaeology. Blog: https://fortrenn.ghost.io
Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social Early medievalist, etc., at the University of Cambridge.
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social Medieval historian and charismatic megafauna enthusiast at the University of Tübingen. Blogs at https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/
Astrid Aillume @aillume.bsky.social A detective. Astrid Aillume's New Case: A Billionaire's Mystery
Cracking a case is like salty liquorice.
Surprising at first,but ultimately addictive.
Transformative Rage @fridaa1.bsky.social One of them liberals
Photographer
Writer
Home chef consistently playing “what can I make with these random things?”
Voracious reader
Lost the very last f¥€k I had to give
Dog and human mom and grandma