Viking Expansion Northwards: Mediaeval Sources

Magical medicine in Viking Scandinavia.

BY THE year A.D. 1213 Christianity was victorious across Europe; only a few isolated pockets of paganism in remote districts of Sweden, Finland, and Moslem Spain held out against what must have seemed to be the inevitable influence of the Church. Nordic expansion was in eclipse. The age of the Vikings was at an end. The marauders who had loosed such fury on the continent to the south, had, in t...

QMUL @ MediaEval 2010 Tagging Task: Semantic Query Expansion for Predicting User Tags

This paper describes our participation in “The Wild Wild Web Tagging Task @ MediaEval 2010”, which aims to predict user tags based on features derived from video such as speech, audio, visual content or associated textual or social information. Two tasks were pursued: (i) closed-set annotations and (ii) open-set annotations. We have attempted to evaluate whether using only a limited number of f...

The MediaEval 2017 AcousticBrainz Genre Task: Content-based Music Genre Recognition from Multiple Sources

This paper provides an overview of the AcousticBrainz Genre Task organized as part of theMediaEval 2017 Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation. The task is focused on content-based music genre recognition using genre annotations from multiple sources and large-scale music features data available in the AcousticBrainz database. The goal of our task is to explore how the same music pie...

The first viking mission to Mars.

A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study has been to confirm the sex and the affinity of an individual buried in a well-furnished warrior grave (Bj 581) in the Viking Age town of Birka, Sweden. Previously, based on the material and historical records, the male sex has been associated with the gender of the warrior and such was the case with Bj 581. An earlier osteological classification of the in...