Shieldmaiden

Giving Birth to a Shieldmaiden. Giving birth to my Shieldmaiden has been a long, sometimes painful, experience. I always knew I h...

A Viking Settlement. Photo by Jon Whiting from Lejre outdoor museum near Roskilde in Denmark. Most Viking settlements were probably fa...

Photo from Ribe Vikinge Center, Ribe, Denmark by Marianne Whiting. The above longhouse or chieftain's hall is rather grand but I ima...

Photo by Marianne Whiting A reader recently asked about the exact location of the places I mention in Shieldmaiden. Not the village...

Cumbrian Vikings – places mentioned in Shieldmaiden. A friend asked about my use of modern English names for places mentioned in Shield...

Blog entry by Emma Keir from the Grassroutes Project about the launch of Shieldmaiden. Picture by Rod Duncan Book Launch: Shieldm...

Cumbrian Vikings.   When I first began writing Shieldmaiden I was very arrogant thinking that being Scandinavian, growing up with lege...