OblivionRise·Aug 21Women Who Commissioned RunestonesEstrid, Unna, Guðlaug and other women did more than appear in family histories — they directed how those histories entered public stone.
OblivionRise·Aug 19Why There Was No Single Viking FuneralCremation, inhumation, boats, chambers, mounds and nearly invisible graves belonged to a mortuary world with no single script.
OblivionRise·Aug 11Why Runestones Were Once PaintedPigment made inscriptions visible, organised carved surfaces, and gave public memory a more forceful presence.
Bob Lynn·Aug 9The Judgement in the ColdIn the long light of a dying shore, a father mends his net and asks what no psalm can teach.
OblivionRise·Aug 8Doors to the Dead in Viking-Age ScandinaviaPortals, openings and doorway burials suggest that some graves were built to separate the dead without making them entirely inaccessible.
