Archaeologists from the Danish national museum have finally succeeded in confirming that Erik the Red and his people could indeed brew beer in Greenland when they lived there. Read the full story

Viking exploration of Hudson Bay will continue in 2013 when descendants of the first Viking voyagers to reach North America 1,000 years ago sail into the Arctic from Churchill, Manitoba. Read the full story

New Harbors New Hopes is a novel by Celia Lund and the follow-on to the enjoyable Square Sails and Dragons Read the full story

Square Sails and Dragons is the well-crafted début novel by American poet Celia Lund. The book is a work of fiction based around real events, and the cast of characters includes some very familiar names. Read the full story

Two Norse mythologists who have made a name for themselves at the Viking World exhibition near Hafnarfjordur have now set their sights even higher: a mythology based theme park where visitors can meet trolls, elves and giants. Read the full story

A company born from a passion for history; the Viking Circle is a one of a kind enterprise dedicated to bringing Old Norse culture and beliefs to a modern audience. Read the full story

Baltasar Kormakur, Iceland’s best known film director, has started work on a new high-budget Viking movie. This will be the most expensive film ever made in Iceland with an estimated budget of 60 million dollars. Read the full story

For the first time in Sweden’s long history, marine archaeologists have uncovered the wreck of a Viking ship lying in the mud at the bottom of Sweden’s biggest lake. The Swedish coastguard had a group of 50 scuba divers surveying Lake Vanern’s bottom, when they stumbled across the 20-metre long wreck. Read the full story

On Saturday a group of walkers from the small town of Neston near Liverpool, England took advantage of the glorious weather conditions to celebrate the area’s own Viking Heritage by walking between 2 churches.

This was the “Olsok walk” in celebration of St. Olave’s (Olaf’s) Day – the patron saint on Norway. In Norway the St. Olave’s walk is hundreds of miles – Neston’s answer was a modest 13 miles from St. Mary and St. Helen’s Church, which has excellent examples of Viking age stonework, to St. Olave’s Church in Chester.

Organisers Steve Harding – Professor of Biology & Viking expert at Nottingham and Dan Robinson – former Keeper of Archaeology at the Grosvenor Museum in Chester said; “Wirral Norsemen first tried to take Chester by force 1100 years ago. This time their intentions were entirely peaceful and the people of Chester were very welcoming – we’ll be back again next year”.

Neston is the same name as Nesstun near Bergen in Norway – a Viking name meaning “settlement at a promintory”

For more information visit: www.nottingham.ac.uk/-sczsteve/Olsok08.htm