Middle Ages

Have you heard the stereotype that people in the Middle Ages only drank beer, wine, and other alcoholic beverages? And have you ever asked yourself how anybody could work (or…

When we think of medieval food we usually think of either lavish feasts or the blend and tasteless grain mush that was supposedly eaten by medieval peasants. However, the diet…

Most movies portray shiel walls wrongly by presenting more or less tightly packed formations charging at each other without any sense of order (or self-preservation). However, despite these wrong depictions,…

The typical Viking ship, the longship, is absolutely iconic and as such a staple in books, movies, and tv-series. But how many warriors were on such a longship? And how…