750–1050 CE) is characterized by large-scale maritime movements of people from Scandinavia to Russia, the Baltic, mainland Europe, and Britain, the Atlantic islands, and Newfoundland for the purposes of trade, settling, and/or outright warfare. Based on written and archaeological sources, linguistics, and genetics, our view of the Viking Age (c. While often framed as hypermobile by nature, the Vikings relied on already established networks and must be seen as part of a larger northern European history of interaction ( Margaryan et al., 2020). The analysis points towards diversity following a north-south gradient in terms of dietary preferences (δ 13C/δ 15N), which demonstrates a higher degree of marine consumption in northern Norway, as opposed to the southern regions similar patterns are also observed through the mobility study (δ 18O), which uncovers high levels of migration in the study population. Results of multi-isotope analyses (δ 18O/δ 13C/δ 15N) in tandem with a cultural historical approach question the hegemonic masculinity associated with the “violent Vikings” and the apparent preconception of stationary women and mobile males in Viking Age Norway, thus challenging conjectural behavioral distinctions between women, men, and children. Based on a framework of radiocarbon dates ( 14C), the studied inhumation graves are distributed across a broad chronological and geographical scope, covering the Late Iron and Viking Age (c. Multi-isotope studies from human remains from Viking Age graves throughout Norway allow for a deeper understanding of mobility, livelihood, and social organization during the Viking Age (750–1050 CE).
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