All courses are taught in English. To this end, the courses are multidisciplinary and the teaching is focussed on specific problems with emphasis on sources and source criticism.
All teaching is on a post-graduate level.
The teachers All teachers are specialists within their fields but work together to create an interdisciplinary curriculum. Among the teachers in the autumn 1999, for instance, Christian Keller is a professor of archaeology and teaches archaeological theory in the introductory weeks, but in the teaching of the topics he uses also economic geography and science to explore the history and economics of the Norse settlements in the Atlantic. Signe Fuglesang is an art historian who works with artefacts and classification, and in her topics teaching she will use monuments, pictures and ornament to discuss political history, economics, and mentality. Terje Spurkland is a runologist who works also on Old Norse grammar, literature and aspects of medieval literacy. The courses Viking culture is taught in the autumn.