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Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Flinders University @flindersmedieval.bsky.social We are Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Flinders, across Literature, Language, History, Archaeology, Philosophy and Gender Studies, on Kaurna land.
Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social Asst Prof (Old English & Old Norse). Book TRANSLATING HELL (2026). Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar.
India • Ladies of Lore Podcast @ladiesoflore.bsky.social Mythology Nerd 🐉| Historian 📜 | Bookworm 📚 | LGBTQ+ 🏳️🌈| Host of Ladies of Lore podcast 🎙️
Which, if you’re interested, explores the badass women of mythology and folklore 🔮✨🐉
Find me on all major podcast platforms 🫶🏻
https://linktr.ee/Ladiesoflore
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship @socmedfem.bsky.social The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship promotes the study of the patristic age, the Middle Ages, and the early modern era from the perspective of gender studies, women's studies, and feminist studies. 
Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social Norwegian medievalist, bibliophile, music lover and art enthusiast.
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Bob Marshall @bobmarshall.co.uk Architectural illustrator / 3D reconstruction artist. Edinburgh, Scotland. #Blender3D Pro. https://bobmarshall.co.uk
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries @dhnb.bsky.social DHNB is an associated organization to EADH, formed to strengthen research, education and communication in the field of Digital Humanities.
https://dhnb.eu/
📍11th Conference March 1–5, 2027. Umeå University, Sweden.
Eiríkur Smári @eirikursmari.bsky.social Philosopher at the University of Iceland with interest in Ancient Greek philosophy, the societal impact of the humanities, research evaluations and more recently in various aspects of digital humanities and arts.
Ármann Jakobsson @armannja.bsky.social Attila the Professor.
Juliane Witte @julianewitte.bsky.social Medievalist :) I work with Old Norse-Icelandic literature with a focus on female anger, emotion and monster studies, reception/Medievalism, and narrative networks @ University of Tübingen
Jennifer Hemphill @jenhemphill.bsky.social ✨ PhD from @aberdeenvikings | researching and writing about magic in the Pre-Modern North | co-founder of Performing Magic in the Pre-Modern North | She/her ✨
Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social Medievalist, Scandinavian Studies with focus on medieval Icelandic literature. Editor of Viking and Medieval Scandinavia
Kate Heslop @norsical.bsky.social Premodern Scandinavia: poetry, sagas, media before media. UC Berkeley prof. "Viking Mediologies” out now with Fordham
The Troth @thetroth.bsky.social 
Fornvännen - Journal of Swedish Antiquarian Research @fornvannen.bsky.social #PeerReviewed #OpenAccess journal published since 1906 by The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
Nordic #Archaeology #ArchaeologicalScience #Osteology #Medieval #History #ArtHistory #Runology
https://publicera.kb.se/fornvannen
Andrew Smardon @vikingporridge.bsky.social Íslandsvinur. Old Norse-Icelandic poetry and more at: https://www.ideasofnorth.com Trustee, Modern Poetry in Translation. Views my own.
Arngrímur Vídalín @arngrimurv.bsky.social University professor (Old Norse, literature, monsters, dehumanization)
Also photographer, sometimes author
DARIAH-IS/CDHA | Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts @mshl-cdha.bsky.social The Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts (Miðstöð stafrænna hugvísinda og lista) promotes the development of and access to infrastructure in #DH.
DARIAH-IS/CDHA - The DARIAH National Coordinating Institution for Iceland
linktr.ee/mshl_cdha
Norse Hagiography Network @networknorse.bsky.social The Norse Hagiography Network is an international, interdisciplinary network with the aim of bringing together scholars with similar interests for collaboration
Markus Mindrebø @markusmindrebo.bsky.social Medieval historian | Associate professor, @unistavanger.bsky.social | Gender/politics in Norse kings' sagas | Network scholar | Game thinker | Storyteller | Most at home in the mountains
International Congress on Medieval Studies @kzooicms.bsky.social Hosted by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, the International Congress on Medieval Studies is an annual gathering of thousands of scholars interested in medieval studies. ICMS 2027: Thursday, May 13, through Saturday, May 15, 2027.
oren falk @orenfalk.bsky.social 🇮🇱🇵🇸 medieval cultural history, esp. Norse. wake up. brush teeth. sagas. rinse. repeat. not necessarily in that order.
Krister Vasshus @kristervasshus.bsky.social Interdisciplinary scholar of (North) Germanic languages, runes, archaeology, religion, biology and cultural history. Currently working as disseminator at Sagnlandet Lejre, and freelancing research. Environmentalist. He, him, jotun.
Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social Postdoc @SCAPES, Museum of Cultural History/University of Oslo.
Everything Late Neolithic and Bronze Age, currently looking into biases/representativity in our archaeological practices, from excavations to theoretical models and interpretations.
Trix @trixranderson.bsky.social Archaeologist at North Yorkshire Historic Environment Record: special interest in Viking-Age Britain and the Great Heathen Army
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
Dr. Hawthorne Harwell @drhawthorneharwell.bsky.social Ph.D. in Humanities with focus on ritual, shamanism, fairy tales, rhetoric. Pagan over 30 years. Teaching seidh for over 20 years.
https://hawthorneharwell.substack.com/
Jake Stattel @jakestattel.bsky.social Medieval Historian, Postdoc Fellow at Cambridge | Vikings, the Danelaw, Legal History | https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-jake-stattel
Dictionary of Old Norse Prose @onp.ku.dk Dictionary of Old Norse Prose - Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog.
A random word of the day with a defined citation, the previous day’s Wordle solution, plus occasional updates from the editors.
https://onp.ku.dk/
Patrick J. Boyle @patrickjboyle.bsky.social Historical and Maritime Archaeologist
Texas A&M University PhD Student
Studying Chesapeake Bay Vernacular Watercraft
Dive Bum, Skydiver, Lost in VR
https://patrickboylephotography.mypixieset.com/
Cat Rector @catrector.com She/Her | Bi | 🇨🇦 | Author of Horror and Dark Fantasy, often staring 30+ers who fk up consistently
WIP: A liminal space haunted house novel with daddy issues 🌈✨
Kaitlin Felix - Author of RAN'S DAUGHTERS - OUT NOW!! @kaitlinfelix.bsky.social Author, ringbearer, nerd in the Swiss Alps. ADHD/Chronic Illness. She/her 🏳️🌈
RÁN’S DAUGHTERS out MARCH 4, 2025 from Outland Entertainment
I like Vikings, crochet, and cats.
https://linktr.ee/KaitlinFelix
Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social medievalist, medievalism-is, lover of things Norse and northern. #author
JORVIK Viking Centre @jorvikviking.bsky.social 👆 Follow us for Viking fun! 🤪
Book a visit to discover the REAL Vikings 🔥
Norse Mythology @norsemythology.bsky.social Dr. Karl E. H. Seigfried is norsemyth.org writer, wildhunt.org columnist, thorsoak.info clergy, first Ásatrú clergy to earn a divinity.uchicago.edu grad degree
Stephen DeCasien, Ph.D. @sdecasien.bsky.social Nautical Archaeologist & Ancient Historian • Greek & Roman Maritime History & Archaeology • Naval Warfare, Warships, & Naval Rams
http://stephendecasien.com
C.J. Adrien @cjadrien.bsky.social Award-winning & bestselling author at Vinci Books | Co-host of the Vikingology Podcast | Lecturer at Medievalists(dot)net | Learn more at cjadrien.com
Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social The Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds is a major centre for interdisciplinary medieval studies. Home of the International Medieval Congress and the International Medieval Bibliography. https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval
The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast @mmapod.bsky.social An anthology-style podcast sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America and co-produced by Will Beattie, Loren Cantrell, Jonathan Correa Reyes, Reed O'Mara, and Logan Quigley.
http://multiculturalmiddleages.com
Instagram: @multiculturalmiddleagespod
Sarah Dunn ✨ @colorfullysarah.bsky.social 
Jane Kershaw @jk-viking.bsky.social Gad Rausing Assoc Prof. of Viking-Age Archaeology, Oxford
Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social He/Him 🏳️⚧️ ✨ Asst. Prof. of Queer and Medieval Literature @SUNY, previously UCLA, York, UO ✨Gender, Empire, and Race in the Old Norse World ✨my own bad opinions
Soul Chaser Becky @soulchaserbecky.bsky.social A proud Viking Geek, book blogger of over 100 books, hostess of Valhalla Conversations Podcast, annual pilgrim of the Jorvik Viking Festival and on an endless quest to learn more about Viking Age History, Norse Mythology and explore their 21stC depictions.
UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social The UHI Archaeology Institute, a hub for world-class research, teaching, and professional consultancy. Part of the UHI
https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/archaeology-institute/ | https://archaeologyorkney.com
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.
@animaanimus.bsky.social @animaanimus.bsky.social #WiseWoman who loves
#myth 👸🌈
#folklore 🍄🌜
#nature 🦉🐦⬛🌳
#ArthurianLegend 🗡️ 👑
#BritishIsles
#EarthPath
#literature and #books 📖📚
#Jung and #symbols
The Vikingology Podcast @vikingologypodcast.bsky.social Viking History podcast with cohosts @cjadrien.bsky.social and @shieldmaidenpdx.bsky.social where we discuss the art and science of the Viking Age. #vikingsky #medievalsky #history
Vikingverse @vikingverse.bsky.social Novel, comics and RPG set in a world where the Norse rule seas and stars with restless fleets, and Christianity has been put to the Viking sword.
Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social Medievalist at the University of Birmingham, fan of Iceland, Vikings, running and other things
The Myth Legend & Lore Podcast @loremyth.bsky.social Myths legends & folklore with Siobhán Clark
mythlegendlore.podbean.com
Author - The Saga of Ádís Rauðfeldr with @VraeydaLiterary, narrator, equality & fairness for all📜
Anastasia Haysler @anastasiah.bsky.social Diviner. Teacher. Writer. Heathen.
Warlocket @handle.invalid Find magic in your everyday life.
Maja Bäckvall @skrivafel.bsky.social Runologist-for-hire, librarian, PhD in Scandinavian languages. Translator into Old Norse for Civ VI, God of War (but only the good runes), AC Valhalla. I infrequently make text games.
Kristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social Professor of runology (= runes & runic inscriptions, not urology), working with all things runic and more. Own views and random thoughts.
Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social Promoting Leif Eriksson awareness and failing / Atrocities of the written word scattered around the world wound web / More active and likely to reply on Instadamn / Translator of The Impudent Edda
https://puffincarcass.etsy.com
Joseph ⛈️🍉 @god-of-sassgard.bsky.social Views are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Æsír or Vanír. Artist. ADHD as hell. He/him
Alex - Spells & Spaceships @blogspells.bsky.social Spells & Spaceships SFF book reviews 🧙🏼♂️🚀
Also enjoy & read/review:
Dark & Middle Ages history/hist. fiction ⚔️
Science & Nature🦊🪶🌲
Norse Mythology 🐐🐐
Lover of Castles 🏰
Joshua Gillingham @joshuagillingham.bsky.social Starter. Go-getter. Needs (more) coffee. Author, Editor & Game Designer from Vancouver Island. Vikings, gnomes, pirates, samurai... worlds within worlds 📚
Alex S. Bradshaw 🦕 @alexsbradshaw.bsky.social Author of the Windborn Sagas WINDBORN and TROLLGRAVE - standalone Norse Fantasy, both SPFBO semi-finalists.
Co-Host of Spotlight Indie
At any moment will be thinking about fantasy and/or dinosaurs 🦖
Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com Norse grimdark and historical fantasy author. Queer from the Tortured Authors Department. Queen's Book Asylum and Before We Go Blog contributor. ’Land’ (The Ten Worlds book 2) out now! https://www.bjornlarssen.com
genevieve gornichec @gengornichec.bsky.social bestselling author of THE WITCH’S HEART 💀🐺🐍 & THE WEAVER AND THE WITCH QUEEN 🦆🧶⚔️ | she/they | Cleveland ➡️ Reykjavík
Simon @malkydungeon.bsky.social I make comics, a Viking era one called the Hogback Saga and Malky Dungeon about a Scottish occult detective
https://www.patreon.com/malkydungeon
Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social Hello from Medievalists.net, the leading online resource for the Middle Ages - check out our website at www.medievalists.net
Saga Thing Podcast @sagathingpodcast.bsky.social Find out what the Vikings did when they were at home with John and Andy, two professors who are passionate about medieval Iceland's literature and history.
(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social Archaeologist. This gun's for hire on small finds. Educator. Iron Age/ early med material culture . Likes horses and old stabby pointy things. "Ain't nothin' like me - except me" (Raccoon, 2014). Usually optimistic. She/her/thon wan. Personal views only
Christian Cooijmans @ccooijmans.bsky.social Viking Historian | Research Fellow @uio.no | Assoc. Researcher @livunihss.bsky.social | vikings in continental Europe | medieval(ism) | histor(iograph)y
https://hcommons.org/members/ccooijmans
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social Medieval historian and charismatic megafauna enthusiast at the University of Tübingen. Blogs at https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/
Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social Early medievalist, etc., at the University of Cambridge.
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
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
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
Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social Galloway Hoard Researcher at National Museums Scotland. Author of Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking Age to Medieval Kingdom and other archaeology content. https://www.nms.ac.uk/profile/dr-adrian-maldonado See also @almostarch.bsky.social
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.
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
Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Viking Studies @uoncsva.bsky.social. Visiting Professor @insuhi.bsky.social, FBA. The Saga of the Earls of Orkney: https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-saga-of-the-earls-of-orkney/ https://uonenglish.substack.com/s/ragnas-islands
The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social Stunning Viking-Age sculpture collection from the early medieval kingdom of Strathclyde, held in A-listed Govan Old ⏰️ OPEN 7 DAYS, 11am to 4pm 🎟 FREE entry!
Norselass @norselass.bsky.social Early Medievalist, far traveller, health humanities. Sadly no longer lives next to Robin Hood.
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
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/
Caitlin Ellis @medivalist.bsky.social Medievalist - Vikings, Normans, Britain, Ireland, the North Atlantic and beyond. Reception & Medievalism.
Associate Professor, University of Oslo
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
Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social Howard Williams BSc MA PhD FSA
Aʀᴄʜᴀᴇᴏ𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 Blogger & Vlogger
http://linktr.ee/archaeodeath
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.
Anton Larsson @antonyaolarsson.bsky.social Doctor of Archaeology and project manager at Lödöse Museum, Sweden.
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
Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social FRHistS, lover of Carolingian coinage, Vikings, Jesus and my wife and daughter, though not necessarily in that order
Emma Brownlee @ecbrownlee.bsky.social Research fellow @GirtonCollege
@UCamArchaeology
Early Medieval Europe | Death & Burial | GIS | Occasional Vikings
She/her
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/
Archaeoptics @archaeoptics.bsky.social Pioneers of 3D laser scanning in Cultural Heritage. Complete digital archive available at http://archive.archaeoptics.co.uk
Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social Early Medievalist, Pictus obsessus and bronze vessel nerd. 46/282 Munros. With some added Crofting and Common Grazings.
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
Tom Fairfax @tcfairfax.bsky.social Professional Orkneyinga saga enthusiast | UoN PhD | Reviews Editor, Northern Studies
Dr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social Lecturer in Biomolecular & Medieval Archaeology at Edinburgh Uni - data viz & R enthusiast (she/her)
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”! 🇺🇸➡️🇬🇧➡️🇮🇸➡️🇩🇪
Marianne Hem Eriksen @thehem.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Archaeology | BBC New Generation Thinker | PI of the Body-Politics project | v slow runner 🇳🇴🇬🇧🇪🇺