[1] Bertil Almgren was born when his father was in his 50s and going blind, and so as a child would read him scholarly texts out loud.
[2] He would also accompany his father to the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, taking notes of lectures and discussions.
That year he became a university lecturer, and in 1965 he succeeded Mårten Stenberger as a professor of Scandinavian and Comparative Archaeology.
[4] One of Almgren's major works was Vikingen, later translated into English as "The Viking" as well as into Danish, Norwegian, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and perhaps other languages.
The book was a collaboration between Almgren as researcher and an illustrator, and provided a popular account of the Vikings, and one of the most influential.