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Date What's New
8 February 2024 Added a collection of photos from our latest Yule Feast - and our first Handfasting Ceremony.
19 January 2024 Added an analysis of the physics, and practicalities - Fast, Hard and Often - of sword combat, with a connection to Game of Thrones.
27 September 2023 Added conversion function to our Viking Runes page for Swedish-Norwegian Short-Twig Younger Futhark runes.
22 September 2023 Added a page with our first Viking Murder Mystery.
27 March 2023 Added a page with photos of our visit to the Camellia Waldorf School in Sacramento.
28 January 2023 Added the ability to pay membership dues online to the Bjornstad Membership page.
19 January 2023 Added a page to make it easy to donate to The Vikings of Bjornstad.
3 January 2023 Added the movie Viking Siege AKA Attack of the Tree Beasts (2017) to our Viking Movies page.
1 January 2023 The Vikings of Bjornstad is now a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation!
14 December 2022 Added a full set of new photos to our Impalement Arts page.
1 September 2022 Updated our The Best Viking Movie and The Top Ten Viking Movies pages to include The Northman (2022).
26 July 2022 Added a set of photos from the Art Institute Museum in Chicago, to our Museum Photos page.
15 July 2022 Added a set of photos from the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, to our Museum Photos page.
3 July 2022 Updated our comments on the Viking movie, The Northman, on our Viking Movies page.
20 June 2022 Added a sample list of English words translated to Younger Futhark runes to the Runic Dictionary page.
4 May 2022 Provided more comments on the latest Viking movie, The Northman, on our Viking Movies page.
26 April 2022 Added a Viking Raid Simulation, based on the world of Viking raiding in 861 AD.
02 January 2022 Revised our Viking Timeline page, adding a lot of historical information
26 December 2021 Added a new group of screen captures to our Norwegian Television page. Added Halvdan Viking to our Viking Movies page.
21 December 2021 Added the movie The Saga of Olav the Holy to our Viking Movies page - and the notification that it has been cancelled. Updated the entry, with photos, for The Northman, now scheduled for release in April, 2022.
2 November 2021 We were featured on the Food Network's Dinner: Impossible series for an episode named, "A Viking Feast", filmed in Solvang, California. Check out the Viking challenges.
28 October 2021 Added an album of photos from the Lofotr Viking Museum in Borg, Norway.
8 October 2021 Added a page describing the gods, places and things that are found in Norse Mythology.
1 October 2021 Added a page describing how the Vikings told time.
31 August 2021 Added a page aiding in Old Norse letter pronunciation.
6 August 2021 Added a new Viking horror movie, Draug, to our Viking Movie page. Updated our comments for the The Huntress - Rune of Death entry.
29 July 2021 Improved the navigation facility throughout both the English to Old Norse and the Old Norse to English versions of the Old Norse Dictionary. You can now jump back and forth between the two dictionaries by just clicking on a letter in the Link Bar from the language you want. Updated the Old Norse Dictionary Notes page to reflect the upgrade.
21 July 2021 Added a new Viking Measurements page providing information on how the Viking measured the world around them and the terms they used.
21 June 2021 Added a new page with advice and counsel for those attempting to start a new Viking reenactment group. Updated the Bjornstad Members page.
10 March 2021 Added new occupations to the Viking Occupations page.
12 February 2021 Added a page devoted to Viking shield designs.
22 Dec 2020 Added a new video, Trace, to our Viking Movie page.
13 Nov 2020 Added a function to our Elder/Anglo-Saxon Runes page that can convert English text to Elder/Anglo-Saxon Futhark runes and Elder/Anglo-Saxon Futhark runes to English text.
3 Nov 2020 Added a function to our Viking Runes page that can convert English text to Younger Futhark runes and Younger Futhark runes to English text.
20 Sep 2020 Added more photos and a video to our Home page.
12 Sep 2020 Added a tenth Viking Trivia Quiz page, with another 25-question quiz, making the total number of questions 250.
14 Aug 2020 Added an eighth Viking Trivia Quiz page, with another 25-question quiz, making the total number of questions 200.
8 July 2020 Added a fifth Viking Trivia Quiz page, with another 25-question quiz, making the total number of questions 125.
2 July 2020 Completely revised the entire web site to better enable viewing from small(er) screen devices. Here's our new main page.
19 June 2020 Added a Viking Trivia Quiz page,with four 25-question quizzes.
18 May 2020 Added a menu reference to our Viking Weaponry page, from a sign in the museum at Roskilde, Denmark.
16 Apr 2020 Added the movies Valhalla (2019) and Pagan Warrior AKA Vikings vs Klampus (2019) to our Viking Movies page.
13 Apr 2020 Added a page listing Viking-era occupations and the Old Norse translations for them.
08 Dec 2019 Added a page for the elder, or Anglo-Saxon, Runes and a page showing a sample Runic Dictionary.
14 May 2019 Added the movie Redbad (2018) and updated our comments on Vikingane AKA Norsemen (2016) to our Viking Movies page.
12 May 2019 Added the movie The Last King AKA Birkebeinerne (2016) to our Viking Movies page.
16 Apr 2019 Added entries to our Viking Movies page for Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire (2017), Viking Destiny (2018) and Rune of the Dead AKA Viking Saga: Rune of the Dead (2019?).
23 Oct 2018 Added a page displaying photos and text describing Bork Viking Harbor in Bork, Denmark.
10 Feb 2018 Added a page showing the construction of a Viking shield by John Logan.
23 Jan 2018 Added photos from the new group Timberhavn Vikings to the Viking Groups page.
02 Jan 2018 Added photos from the Wolves ov Odin to the Viking Groups page.
17 Dec 2017 Added a new page with photos of Viking age artifacts shown in the 2017 exhibition Vikings: Beyond the Legend from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science taken by Una Ragnvaldsdottir.
28 Nov 2017 Added a new menu topic and series of pages displaying photos from Viking groups and events around the world.
18 Nov 2017 Added a new page describing the Viking calendar and some of the terms they might have used during the year to mark the passing of time.  Added a link to the Viking Reference menu.
14 Nov 2017 Added a new page for Old Norse terms for components of the Viking era longhouse and a new page for the Old Norse terms relating to compass directions and times of the day.  Also added a Facebook link to our menu.
28 Oct 2017 Made extensive upgrades to our Old Norse Dictionary, both the Old Norse to English and the English to Old Norse versions. Added thousands of new entries, extended the entries with more information and added the part of speech for most entries. We also added a Notes page, explaining the structure, navigation and other details about the dictionary.
18 July 2017 Updated the entry to our Viking Movies page for Viking (2016) after getting a copy to view.
29 June 2017 Edited many entries on the Viking Movies page, adding photos and revising text.
9 June 2017 Added new entries to our Viking Movies page for Amsgård: En Vikingasaga (2007), Beowulf: Prince of the Geats (2007), Il Tesoro della Foresta Pietrificata (The Treasure of the Petrified Forest) (1965), Prima Veras Saga Om Olav Den Hellige (Prima Veras Saga About Olav The Holy) (1983), Timetrip: The Curse of the Viking Witch (2009) and Viking Legacy (2016)
3 Apr 2017 Added a new menu entry for the Buccaneers of Bjornstad - for our pirate pages. Our Battle Sail and Pirate Festival pages have a new home there.
8 Mar 2017 Added a link to the new trailer for Blood of Roelent on the Blood of Roelent - The Norman Film page
22 Jan 2017 Added a new page for photos from the Cincinnati Museum Vikings exhibition taken by Einar Severinson.
27 Dec 2016 Added an entry for the Norwegian TV series Vikingane to the Viking Movies page.
28 Nov 2016 Added photos of Bjornstad's trip to the Ravensborg Viking Longfort in Missouri.
30 Aug 2016 Added a page showing how we created our Bjornstad Runestone.
23 Jun 2016 Added a page for the Northern California Pirate Festival in Vallejo.
26 May 2016 Added a page for the Midsummer Medieval Festival, 2015 at the Castello di Amorosa winery in Calistoga.
11 Apr 2016 Added a page for the Tartan Day festival, including our play about the Declaration of Arbroath, signed in 1320 AD.
07 Mar 2016 Added/updated comments to our Viking Movies page for Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands (2016), DuckTales: Maid of the Myth (1987), Ironclad (2011), Northmen: A Viking Saga (2014), Pope Joan (2009), Sword of Vengeance (2015), Viking: The Berserkers (2014), A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day (2013) and Wraiths of Roanoke AKA Lost Colony: The Legend of Roanoke (2007).
20 Jan 2016 Added comments to our entry for I Normanni AKA Conquest of the Normans to our Viking Movies page.
08 Dec 2015 Added entries to our Viking Movies page for The Viking's Daughter (1908), Viking Quest (2014) and Shieldmaiden (2015).
22 Nov 2015 Added an entry to our Viking Movies page for Viking (2016), a Russian movie due to be released in 2016.
15 Oct 2015 Added space for a "Recent" movie image and updated the entry to our Viking Movies page for The Last Kingdom (2015), based on the broadcast of its first episode.
10 Aug 2015 Added a new Viking Wisdom page listing sayings inspired by, and extracted from, the Icelandic Sagas. The original list was written by Alfta "Svanni" Lothurrsdottir, with and edited by Ari Odhinssen.
07 Aug 2015 Added a new page with photos of Viking age artifacts shown in the 2015 exhibition Vikings from the Field Museum in Chicago taken by Einar Severinson.
26 Jun 2015 Updated the entry to our Viking Movies page for The Last Kingdom (2015).
24 Jun 2015 Added entries to our Viking Movie page for I Tartari AKA The Tartars (1961), Super Moine (Super Monk) (2006)and Guillaume - La Jeunesse du Conquérant (William - The Youth of the Conqueror) (2015).
10 Sep 2014 Added a page with photos from an independent film project Bjornstad contributed to, now known only as The Norman Film, set in the 11th century.
13 July 2014 Added a Cub Scout Camp page to show a few photos from our presentation at a Cub Scout Camp in Newark, CA.
13 June 2014 Added a Making a Viking Seax page written by Brian Agron. Added comments by Henrik Olsgaard to our Viking Movies page for the movie Vikingdom (2013).
13 Apr 2014 Added a Dragon Ships and the Emerald Isle page with photos from our St. Patrick's Day presentation for the Sons of Norway's Freya Lodge in Santa Rosa.
26 Mar 2014 Added a Top Ten Viking Movies page.  We developed the list for Norwegian Public Television.
22 Feb 2014 Added Northmen (2012) to our Viking Movies page.
26 Nov 2013 Added a new Viking Reading List page for books we recommend.
23 Sep 2013 Added a new page for our Viking movie recommendations video shoot for Filmbonanza on Norwegian Public Television.
21 Sep 2013 Added Killian's Chronicle, The Wild Hunt and Northmen: A Viking Saga to our Viking Movies page.
26 Aug 2013 Added a new page of photos and biographies of our members.
21 Aug 2013 Added a new page for our day at the Sons of Norway's picnic at their Henrik Ibsen Park south of San Francisco.
30 Jun 2013 Added a new page for Companie di Bjornstad, our new medieval group, and a page for its first event, the Midsummer Medieval Festival.
16 May 2013 Added 2013 photos to the Special Kids Day page.
02 Apr 2013 Added an entry about Beauty and the Beast (2005) (no, not that one) to our Viking Movies page.
03 Mar 2013 Added comments about the History Channel's Vikings series to our Viking Movies page.
09 Feb 2013 Added a page of photos from our work with NASA Ames for their CubeSat publicity campaign.
29 Jan 2013 Added an entry for Prince Valiant (1997) to the Viking Movies page.
14 Jan 2013 Added a new page with photos of Viking age artifacts from the National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavik taken by Kay Tracy and Tory Parker.
14 Oct 2012 Added a digitally altered photo to our Bjornstad Photos page from our visit to the Freya Lodge of the Sons of Norway in Santa Rosa, CA.
20 Sep 2012 Added a page of photos of our visit to Greenwood School, in Mill Valley, CA.
09 Aug 2012 Added two photos of Jack and the Munin longship in Vancouver, BC, to the Bjornstad Photos page.
04 July 2012 Added, or added to, entries for Tarkan Viking Tani, Hetjur Valhallar - Þór, and A Viking Saga: Son of Thor on the Viking Movies page.
19 June 2012 Added Hammer of the Gods (2013) to the Viking Movies page.  Bjornstad provided historical background research for the movie.
22 May 2012 Added The Secret of Kells to the Viking Movies page.
11 May 2012 Added the Norway Day Festival page.
09 Apr 2012 Added, or added to, entries for Astérix et les Vikings, Den Sidste Viking, Hagbard and Signe, Normannerne, The Saga of Biorn and Valhalla on the Viking Movies page.
07 Mar 2012 Added a link to the trailer for Charlie Schroeder's book on historical re-enacting, Man of War, which includes his stint with The Vikings of Bjornstad.
15 Feb 2012 Added a page of photos from the Viking Museum Haithabu taken by Bryan and Helma Betts in 2009.
13 Feb 2012 Updated the Sprint the Pier page to add photos from the 2011 event.
01 Dec 2011 Updated the Main page to add recent events and activities .
26 Nov 2011 Added screen captures for Stara Basn and entries for Ring of the Nibelungs and Hammer of the Gods to the Viking Movies page.
11 Sep 2011 Added photos to the Impalement Arts page
Added screen captures for The Littlest Viking to the Viking Movies page.
06 Sep 2011 Added photos from the 2011 show to the Pleasanton Highland Games page.
28 Aug 2011 Added the Impalement Arts page and added to the entries for Beowulf and Grendel and The Viking Sagas on the Viking Movies page.
12 July 2011 Added an outtakes video to the "The Frost Giant's Daughter" page.
08 July 2011 Added video of Skuldelev 5 to the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum page.
02 July 2011 - Added a new Midsummer Festival page for the Castello di Amorosa event
- Added 10 photos of the 2011 event to the Special Kids Day page .
06 Jun 2011 Added the new Viking Raid Simulation page for the Sea Stallion Attack game.
17 May 2011 - Changed the overall web site design
- Built in menu categories to better accommodate the growing list of pages
- Added matching Old Norse-to-English and English-to-Old Norse dictionaries
- Added a page on Viking runes
- Added a dictionary of Old Norse-to-English Viking ship terms .
16 May 2011 Added the newly released Thor movie to our Viking Movie page. 
30 Mar 2011 Added new photos to our The Frost Giant's Daughter page. 
23 Mar 2011 Added Ed Berland's poster to our The Frost Giant's Daughter page. 
22 Mar 2011 Revised the Calendar of Events page to show upcoming events first, then past events.
18 Mar 2011 Added photos from our latest combat and training session to the training page. 
18 Jan 2011 Added a Russian/Norwegian movie to our Viking Movie List: I na kamnyakh rastut derevya (And on the stone, the trees grow) AKA Dragens Fange (Dragon's Captive) (1985)
16 Jan 2011 Added a web page for our filming of The Frost Giant's Daughter
17 Dec 2010 Added comments on The Viking (1928).  Added screen captures to the Viking Movies Page and The Best Viking Movie page.
9 Dec 2010 Added The Best Viking Movie page.
7 Dec 2010 Removed references to Bjornstad's association with Regia Anglorum.
27 Nov 2010 Added Graz Armory page.
26 Nov 2010 Added What's New page.
27 Oct 2010 Added Pleasanton Highland Games page.
27 Oct 2010 Added Special Kids Day page.
27 Oct 2010 Added Oakmont Symposium page.
25 Sep 2010 Made minor changes to the Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde page.
31 Aug 2010 Added extended comments on Grendel (2007).
26 Aug 2009 Added comments on 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth (2009).
   

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