The Hoard
What have we been up to?
We have been taking a brief hiatus from posting as the entire staff of NorsebyGod has been preparing for our end-of-the-school-year medieval banquet–the culmination of a semester’s worth of projects. We will begin our regular… Read More →
Isabella Bruce, Part II
The story of Isabella Bruce continues from Isabella Bruce, Part I | Norse By God And it was at this moment that the Bruce family rose into ascendance, and Isabella stepped into history. Her grandfather,… Read More →
Isabella Bruce, Part I
Isabella Bruce’s name rings out with the declaration of Scottish independence and the proud declamations of dynasty. Her older brother, Robert, lives on in legend and song as the salvation of Scotland from the English,… Read More →
Threads of History: The Viking Queen’s Lost Textiles (Anne Stine Ingstad, Part III)
The Ingstad family—Helge, Anne Stine, and Benedicte—spent the summer of 1961 exploring the northeastern coast of Canada on board a tiny ship stocked with Norwegian chocolate bars and a copy of the Norse sagas. Their… Read More →
Why Vikings? Why Vikings in West Virginia?
Welcome to Norse by God, a substack centered in the Department of History at Marshall University. Thanks to an extremely generous grant from the Hedrick Family, we have three years to devote ourselves to the… Read More →