Free, hands-on ways to meet the Viking world: find the name a Norse family might have given you, write it in the runes they carved, and more on the way. Every tool is built on the old sources and explains its choices as you go.
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Write Your Name in Runes
Any name in the runes the Vikings carved, and in all four runic alphabets, rune by rune, with a free printable rune card.
Write my name in runes
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Viking Name Generator
Get a name built the way the Norse built them: a forename, a name from a parent and a byname, with the Old Norse, the runes and a story.
Find my Viking name
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Play Hnefatafl
The Viking board game, playable in your browser against the computer or a friend, with every rule explained as you go.
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Explore Yggdrasil
An interactive map of the World Tree: nine worlds, three roots, three wells, each sourced to the old texts.
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Bind-Rune Maker
Join the runes of your initials into one Viking-age bind-rune, the way carvers shared a stroke, and download your badge.
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Days of the Week Decoder
Why Tuesday is Tyr's day and Thursday is Thor's: every weekday traced back to the gods it is named for.
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