Viking Congress

07/08/2022

We are delighted to report that the 19th Viking Congress went extremely well, everyone had a great week. We gave out frequent updates on twitter via and the programme and posters will be visible on the website for the next month www.vikingcongress.net

We will continue to work on the publication of the 19th Congress. The 20th Viking Congress will be in Oslo Norway, in 2026. In due course we will be handing over publicity to the Oslo team.

All the best,
#19 Viking Congress Organising Group.

Croeso / Welcome The Viking Congress is an international, interdisciplinary, academic conference on the Viking Age, which began in 1950, and meets every four years. The Congress traditionally does not have parallel sessions, and involves a single programme of spoken delegate papers, coupled with fie...

23/07/2022

The 19th Viking Congress has begun. We decided quite a while ago that this would be an in-person congress, so we aren't doing a zoom link. The public lectures will be recorded and put on Liverpool University's you tube channel. More info on

Croeso / Welcome The Viking Congress is an international, interdisciplinary, academic conference on the Viking Age, which began in 1950, and meets every four years. The Congress traditionally does not have parallel sessions, and involves a single programme of spoken delegate papers, coupled with fie...

12/07/2021

Update: Congress postponed to 2022
Due to concerns about the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic the 19th Viking Congress has been postponed to 23-29 July 2022, and will be held at Liverpool University. The congress tour, if viable, will follow starting from Liverpool on 29 July and continuing at Lancaster University. The call for papers is now closed and we have a full complement of international speakers and posters. There will be public lectures: details on venues and timings will be made available near the time.

The 19th Viking Congress has been postponed to 2022. Dates of the Congress will now be Saturday 23 – Friday 29 July 2022 in Bangor and Liverpool, with the Study Tour based in Lancaster, Friday 29 July – Tuesday 2 August 2022. POSTPONEMENT TO 2022 The 19th Viking Congress was planned for July 202...

18/11/2020

This is just to notify all our followers that the 19th Viking Congress has been postponed from July 2021 to 23-29 July 2022, with the Study Tour from 29 July - 2 August 2022. We hope all arrangements will remain the same, and we will make sure there will be some great public lectures. Sorry about this! it is due (of course) to the Coronavirus pandemic, restrictions on travel, and the difficulty of going ahead in 2021.

25/09/2020

Call for papers has been extended to 31 October. We now have plenty of submissions but there is room for more!

17-23 July 2021 in Bangor and Liverpool, with Study Tour based in Lancaster, 23-27 July 2021. Call for papers extended to 31 October 2020 Following the extended call for papers, in November 2020 a final decision will be taken by the organising committee on the feasibility of running the 19th Viking....

01/08/2020

A reminder that the call for papers closes in one month from today! https://www.vikingcongress.net/

18/03/2020

19th Viking Congress, 2021. We are very pleased to announce that the new congress website with call for papers is now LIVE

17-23 July 2021 in Bangor and Liverpool, with Study Tour based in Lancaster, 23-27 July 2021. Croeso / Welcome The Viking Congress is an international, interdisciplinary, academic conference on the Viking Age, which began in 1950, and meets every four years. The Congress traditionally does not have....

01/09/2019

We are happy to show the logo for the 19th Viking Congress in July 2021, which is the traditional Congress logo (definition below) decorated with combined symbols of Wales (the red dragon) and North-West England (the red rose of Lancashire). Art work by Robert Travis.

The official Congress logo was adopted at the fifth congress in the Faroes in 1965. Known in the Faroes as a held (Icelandic: högld), it is a ring made of a locked loop of ram’s horn. It was, and still is, used for a number of purposes, but chiefly as a loop attached to a rope and used when carrying hay (information from vikingcongress.com).

01/08/2019

Major planning session yesterday for #19 Viking Congress in July 2021. The sessions and themes in Bangor and Liverpool are going to be radical, fresh and engaging, and the tour from Lancaster is going to be amazing. Web site already under construction, and expect the call for papers early in 2020. David, Nancy, Clare and Fiona.

13/08/2017

The 18th Viking Congress is over. Now there's a chance to spread all that good knowledge.

Deadline 17th August 2017

10/08/2017

18th Viking Congress visit the Northern Emporium excavation in Ribe.

08/08/2017

18th Viking Congress at Trelleborg. Photo: Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson