Both public and scholarly perceptions of the Viking Age (c.AD 750–1050) have long been dominated by a western outlook, emphasising raiding and trading in Europe and the North Atlantic, with only limited attention paid to Scandinavian contacts to the east. In recent years, this viewpoint has shifted dramatically, not only acknowledging the borderless nature of the so-called Viking diaspora, but also the true extent of its range into the steppe and beyond to east Asia, as well as maritime connections through the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. A new research centre at Uppsala University in Sweden aims to explore these new frontiers, in collaboration with international colleagues...