The new event of the creative leg of A Viking in the Sun took place in Istanbul in June 2026 (see image gallery below). Horror in the Cisterns: Cthulhu in Byzantium is a live actual play show produced with the games company Chaosium and the History and Games Lab of the University of Edinburgh in […]

  Our third symposium took place in Siracusa, Sicily being the westernmost areas that Harald visited during his Mediterranean years. Icelandic sagas mention Sicily, but they do not feature specific place names within it. However, Harald took part to the Byzantine invasion of the island of 1038, and the conquest of Siracusa was one of […]

  The second symposium of the project was hosted by the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, within the Swedish Consulate. This symposium explored how powerful women shaped Harald’s formative travels, from Ingegerd of Sweden in Kievan Rus’ to Empress Zoe of Byzantium and Rasad in Fatimid Egypt. Yet this symposium was also an opportunity to […]

  The first symposium of the project was hosted by the Snorrastofa Cultural and Medieval research Centre in Reykholt, Iceland. It was an especially suitable location to start the project because Snorrastofa is built on the site of Snorri Sturluson’s main residence. Snorri Sturluson (d. 1241 at Reikholt, where he was murdered) was Iceland’s greatest […]

On 25 September 2021 we piloted some of the creative responses to our project at the event that the Royal Armouries Museum at Leeds organised on the anniversary of the Battle of Stamford Bridge, which is where Harald died. The battle was fought, in Yorkshire, not far from the museum, in 1066. The creative responses […]