Wirral Vikings @wirralvikings.bsky.social The largest Viking and Anglo-Saxon living history group in the North West
Eadgyth 📚🫖 @eadgyth.bsky.social Medievalist studying at MA at University of York; sci-fi and Tolkien fan; knitter. Old English reader, reciter, teacher, and enthusiast.
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.
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
Ludohistory @ludohistory.bsky.social Historian, librarian, creator, ally. Exploring how modern media adapts the past. Website: https://ludohistory.com Livestreams: https://twitch.tv/ludohistory
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social ⛏️ Archaeologist. Ancient Greek animals, food, & environment
Fighting Atlantis pseudoscience 🌊🏛
2024 Ockham Award for skeptical activism
Tavros is our rescue 🐈 from Knossos
It's my real name | he/him
www.youtube.com/@flintdibble
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
Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an independent, peer-reviewed, digital-first, open-access journal. All volumes are available through our website.
https://ceraejournal.com
American Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social American Medieval is a podcast about the Middle Ages, but with an American twist. If America has never been modern, it’s because we’ve always been slightly medieval.
Host @profgabriele.com, part of @multitude.productions
linktr.ee/americanmedievalshow
Natalie Hopwood @nrhopwood.bsky.social Medievalist and Comics Historian
PhD Candidate working on an intertextual analysis of monster encounters with dragons, dwarfs, and the undead in Old Norse fantastical sagas at the University of Leeds
Centre for the Study of the Viking Age @uoncsva.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the University of Nottingham's Centre for the Study of the Viking Age. Follow us for info on events, seminars and conferences.
Rebekah Day-Wood @rebekahbeatnik.bsky.social 🇦🇺🏴MSc Medieval History from Edinburgh Uni 🎓 Too many research interests; animals, magic and women in particular. Arthurian literature. Wales. Viking interactions. Witches. Always covered in cat hair.
Dr Alexander Thomas @admt9999.bsky.social Researcher: Viking Age governance texts & landscapes, England. Author: @routledgebooks.bsky.social Member: Rochester Cathedral Research Guild, Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory and Loyalty in the Medieval World Research Networks. Website: https://www.alex3.net.
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
Dr Irina Manea @shieldofskuld.bsky.social Viking historian navigating the seas between precarious academia and public engagement. Uni Signum | Uni Chester
Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social Medievalist, Scandinavian Studies with focus on medieval Icelandic literature. Editor of Viking and Medieval Scandinavia
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 🇩🇰
Siobhan Cooke-Miller @siobhancookemiller.bsky.social Curator of Archaeology at Orkney Museum. PhD in Viking/Late Norse Scotland/social zooarchaeology. Lecturer - Archaeology Institute UHI.
Whelk!
JORVIK Viking Centre @jorvikviking.bsky.social 👆 Follow us for Viking fun! 🤪
Book a visit to discover the REAL Vikings 🔥
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
Banner Saga @bannersaga.com From Stoic Studio - Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. ⚔️
Chronology Of the Norse TransAtlantic Colonies and Territories @contactproject.bsky.social a 5‑year ERC‑funded project @rug.nl
📜 Re‑examining the earliest Europe ↔ North America connections
🔬 Radiocarbon spike dating | Isotope & DNA analysis | Bayesian modelling | Historical & saga research
🌍 Mapping Norse expansion across the North Atlantic
Jackson Crawford @norsebysw.bsky.social Former instructor (UCLA/UCB/CU), Ph.D., on youtube ( www.youtube.com/jacksoncrawford ). Imperfectly trying to teach Old Norse things and linguistics. 2nd Ed. of my translation of the Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes now out. Colorado.
Justine Breton @bretonjustine.bsky.social Lecturer in Medievalism, University of Lorraine (SAMA)
📚Translating The Witcher (2026)
Terry Pratchett et la Mort (2025)
Les Simpson et les autres (2025)
Robin des Bois (2024)
The Witcher, un monde de légendes (2023)
Kaamelott, un livre d'histoire (2018)
Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social Archaeologist & historian (mainly castles). Curator of History @ English Heritage. Views mine, he/him.
Work stuff: https://linktr.ee/willwyeth; header: Sanam Khatibi.
Heather Lynn @drheatherlusty.bsky.social sibyl | cynic | crumbling academic | \m/
Dr. Birgitta Hoffmann @mancent.bsky.social Archaeologist and historian. Author. Course Director and lecturer of Independent Adult Education Provider MANCENT. Director Roman Gask Project. Loves all things Roman and Silkroad, and lots and lots of ancient glass. 
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social Historian of 18th-century Scotland focused on Jacobite Studies and Digital History. Curator of JDB1745. Chair, Jacobite Studies Trust. PhD via University of St Andrews. In love with a swan and two cats. Currently watching the leaves in Portland, OR.
Rudmer Koopal @rudmerkoopal.bsky.social R1b-S21(U-106), Pontische steppe, Touwbeker, Klokbeker, Dolktijd, Bronstijd, Gǫngu-Hrólfr, Guillaume Malet, pro-wolf, pro-korenwolf.
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
NorseMap @norsemap.bsky.social Project based @UCC & funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant. Aiming to map the Viking legacy in Europe with the help of the public & to understand the evolution of the perception of the Vikings over the past 200 years.
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
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Early Medievalist @earlymedievalist.bsky.social Tim Clarkson. PhD, FRHistS. Historian and author.
Early medieval history and archaeology.
See my books at http://senchus.wordpress.com/my-books/
Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social Norwegian medievalist, bibliophile, music lover and art enthusiast.
[Header: Valenciennes - BM - ms. 0320, f.120v]
Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social Archaeologist of borders, working on the Anglo-Cymric borderland and its folklore, digital humanist. Trustee, Offa's Dyke Association. All ops very much my own. archaeoborders.wordpress.com
Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social PhDing: Vikings and white supremacy, IHR London | trans dykefag | they/them
Hannah Armstrong @hjparmstrong.bsky.social ECR | Medieval(ism)ist | Old Norse, North Atlantic Islands, Place and Travel Writing | Access and Engagement | She/Her.
Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies @bristolcms.bsky.social The interdisciplinary Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol concerned with all aspects of the history, culture, art and representation of medieval Europe.
De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Jonathan Herold @jonathan-r-herold.bsky.social Historian (focusing on various aspects of European/North Atlantic developments during the Early Middle Ages), university instructor, dog lover and film buff.
Middeleeuwen Podcast @middeleeuwen.bsky.social De podcast over de Middeleeuwen! Van Hadewijch tot Clovis, vikingen tot India… en meer! Middeleeuwen is nu overal te beluisteren.
🎤: Timo Epping
📱: https://linktr.ee/middeleeuwen
Timo Epping @timoepping.bsky.social Educator bij het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden | Maakt op persoonlijke titel de podcasts ‘Oudheid’ en ‘Middeleeuwen’
Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social The CMEMS brings together staff and students from across the University of Edinburgh studying the medieval and early modern periods.
Find out more at https://hca.ed.ac.uk/centre-medieval-renaissance/seminars-and-events/seminars
Janet E Kay @janetekay.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist working on early medieval burial archaeology and plague
Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social Medievalist at Heidelberg University.
'We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love.' - J. R. R. Tolkien (1943)
Izzy @explorewessex.bsky.social Digital Marketer & Early Medieval Reenactor interested in Archaeology, History, Heritage & Photography. Love the outdoors & travel.
Annemarieke Willemsen @amwillemsen.bsky.social A medieval art historian & archaeologist @ Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, Dr, FSA, loves Rome & Roma, birds & books, proprietor of the Rose & Parrot 🐺📚🦤
"History is an illusion caused by the passing of time" (Douglas AdAms)
Nicolas Perreaux @nicolasperreaux.bsky.social Medieval history & Data mining (CNRS LaMOP - Paris 1 Sorbonne). Medieval Europe, historical semantics, charters, Patrologia, AI, machine learning, text mining. Dir. CEMA (Cartae Europae Medii Aevi) and CARo (Corpus des actes royaux de la France médiévale).
Monumenta Germaniae Historica @monumenta.bsky.social Official account of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) - a research institution with over 200 years experience in publishing Medieval source material in text-critical editions. Posts by Clemens Radl, Annette Marquard-Mois, Dominik Trump.
@iandromiskin.bsky.social @iandromiskin.bsky.social Senior Archaeologist at Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit (ACSU) and PhD student at Institute of Irish Studies University of Liverpool.
Fjorn the Skald @fjorntheskald.com 🧙🏻♂️ I’m just a guy (he/they) wandering for wisdom
🎓 M.A. in History (mostly Norse)
📖 writing fantasy at feolnir.com
🚫 anti-AI ・ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ inclusive ally
Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social Ikerbasque Research Professor of Medieval History at University of Basque Country
Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social I work in archaeology and data science in Scotland.
https://journal.caa-international.org/articles/10.5334/jcaa.166
Past Horizons Archaeology Equipment @pasthorizons.bsky.social Archaeology Equipment Web Shop. WHS and Battiferro Trowels, Photo Scales, Drafting Film (permatrace) and much more.
https://pasthorizons.com
Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social Recent Masters degree in Archaeological Practice at Birkbeck, University of London. Volunteer at Ham House, Richmond. Here to share my love of archaeology.
Hilbert Vinkenoog (History with) @history-w-hilbert.bsky.social North Sea-lander (Northumbrian/Dutch/Frisian) studying Viking and Medieval Studies. Early Medieval Frisia and the Frisians, Pre-Christian Religions of the North, Frisian Language(s). History with Hilbert. Frisian with Hilbert. 
Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History, Concordia U, Montreal. Spend most waking hours thinking about London riots early 16thc., Dutch immigrants, sex, gender, and the like. Knitster. She/her.
Cdn Society of Medievalists/Société Canadienne des médiévistes @canmedievalists.bsky.social Official account of the CSM / SCM -- join us at https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/.
Banner image: University of Victoria Library, MS Doc.Brown, https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/doc-brown-2.php
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
flore @pacificflore.bsky.social Medievalist. India past and today . Pacific Studies. Hokulea. Art. Museums. Archeology. Science. Biology. Environment.
The Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social North America's first organization of medievalists
Parergon Journal @parergon.bsky.social Peer-reviewed antipodean medieval and early modern studies journal, always open for submissions. Owned by ANZAMEMS.bsky.social, tweeted by mattfirth.bsky.social.
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
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
Trix @trixranderson.bsky.social Archaeologist at North Yorkshire Historic Environment Record: special interest in Viking-Age Britain and the Great Heathen Army
Seven Sages of Rome Research Project @7sagesresearch.bsky.social AHRC and DFG funded project exploring the Seven Sages of Rome/Dolopathos/Book of Sindibad, focusing on gender, genre, and multilingual medieval transmission. https://seven-sages-of-rome.org/
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
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.
Suzanne Martin @gythainjeans.bsky.social #BLM #LGBT+ #Frithcast (she/her). #InclusiveHeathenry #Interfaith
MA European Historical Archaeology.
http://gythainjeans.home.blog
@TheWyrdThing
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Jane Kershaw @jk-viking.bsky.social Gad Rausing Assoc Prof. of Viking-Age Archaeology, Oxford
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.
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
Myles Stevens @everytimereferee.bsky.social Early medieval re-enactor. Graphic designer. Occasional bodger, even more occasional poet. Famously hates space. Three kids one of each, trans ally because it's the only way to be human. Welsh.
Viking Valley, Gudvangen @vikingvalley.bsky.social www.vikingvalley.no
Open every day 10:00 - 18:00 (Winter 10:30 - 14:00)
Guided tours, axe-throwing & archery included in your ticket.
Bianca Chiacchia @bchiacchia.bsky.social PhD Student at the University of Calgary📚
European Association of Archaeologists @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social We are 4,000 archaeologists from over 60 countries.
Tweets by volunteers, not 24/7.
Find us here: https://www.e-a-a.org/
e: helpdesk@e-a-a.org
Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social Medievalist at the University of Birmingham, fan of Iceland, Vikings, running and other things
Steve Dickinson @stevearchaeo.bsky.social I’m an archaeologist based in Cumbria in the UK, writing up several fieldwork projects and currently researching pre-Viking and Viking Age sites on and near the Cumbrian coast. Further details: academia.edu
Rebecca Boyd @drrebeccaboyd.bsky.social Archaeologist, specialising in Viking-Age Ireland, occasional baker, reads trashy crime novels
Dr. Timothy Liam Waters @liamh2os.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Charles University || Ph.D. in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures & Medieval Studies || Literary Materialist approaches in Old Norse || Professional Kolbítr.
Erica Steiner @ericasteiner.bsky.social Celtic Studies PhD in progress @ Sydney Uni: ancient/medieval tattooing.
Finds rabbit holes & side quests irresistible!
Environmental humanities • Geomythology • Historical body modifications • Medieval mistranslations, misnomers & mysteries.
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
ENU Heritage Collections @enuheritage.bsky.social Home of Edinburgh Napier University's archives, rare books, and museum collections.
See also @edinburghnapier.bsky.social and @enulibrary.bsky.social. 
Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social Institute of #irishstudies @liverpooluni.bsky.social: world-leading research & teaching in peace & conflict, women's studies, literature & history.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studies
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!
The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked.
https://linktr.ee/fakehistoryhunter
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'.
Almost Archaeology @almostarch.bsky.social Archaeology in/of/as/through pop culture. Run by @archaeonado.bsky.social, writing at almostarchaeology.com
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
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well.
Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
Jonas ZA @jonasza4.bsky.social PhD candidate in Medieval Scandinavian studies at the universities of Bonn & Bergen | Marvels in the Old Norwegian King's Mirror | Medieval learning, Norway, religious literature | also video games | he/him
linktr.ee/jonasza
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 مسمن.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).
unfortunately, I care about power lines now
she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social PhD. Novelist (Hild, Spear, Menewood). All things Early Medieval. Here: Cats, crips, queers. Books, beauty, beers. MS ♿️🧪📚
MUTING THOSE WHO DON’T ALT-TEXT
nicolagriffith.com
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