Hayo Vierck took an early interest in the history and archaeology of his homeland while at secondary school, and also had early contact with Haithabu. After taking his school certificate examinations in 1962 in Plön, Vierck studied Pre- and Proto-history with the subsidiary subjects of Classical Archaeology and Folklore in Munich and obtained his doctorate in 1969 under Joachim Werner with a dissertation on North English and West Scandinavian Costume Accessories in the 5th and 6th Centuries. Finishing that, he undertook a second research project in Oxford, which culminated in his attainment of Bachelor of Letters in the Department of European Archaeology. He became Fellow of the External research unit 7 'Medieval research' of Münster University from 1969 until 1985, and Professor of 'Art and Craft in the Early Middle Ages' at the Seminar for Protohistory and Early History. His special research strengths were his Work of Eligius and the Imitatio Imperii. He was married to Sigrid Vierck, who wrote a dissertation on the Ægis, Die Aigis: Zu Typologie und Ikonographie eines Mythischen Gegenstandes and in 2008 was elected Abbess of the Lutheran conventual monastery of Walsrode Abbey.
Writings
Thorsten Capelle and Hayo Vierck, 'Modeln der Merowinger- und Wikingerzeit', Frühmittelalterliche Studien 5, 1971,.
Hayo Vierck, 'Redwalds Äsche', Offa 29,.
Wendy Davies and Hayo Vierck, 'The Contexts of Tribal Hidage: Social Aggregates and Settlement Patterns', Frühmittelalterliche Studien 8, 1974,.
Hayo Vierck, 'Werke des Eligius', in Kossack, Georg und Günter Ulbert : Studien zur vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Archäologie. Festschrift für Joachim Werner. Münchener Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte, 1974,.
Thorsten Capelle and Hayo Vierck, 'Weitere Modeln der Merowinger-und Wikingerzeit. Mit einem Beitrag von Wilhelm Winkelmann', Fruhmittelalterliche Studien 9, 1975,.
Hayo Vierck, 'Die wikingische Frauentracht von Birka', Offa 36, 1981, pp. 119–33.
Hayo Vierck, Der Neufund aus einem frühmittelalterlichen Kirchenschatz von Enger in Westfalen..
Hayo Vierck, 'Imitatio imperii und Interpretatio Germanica vor der Vikingerzeit', in Rudolf Zeitler,Les pays du nord et Byzance: ; actes du Colloque Nordique et International de Byzantinologie tenu à Upsal 20-22 avril 1979,,.
Hayo Vierck, 'Ein Schmiedeplatz aus Alt-Ladoga und der präurbane Handel zur Ostsee vor der Wikingerzeit' Zur frühmittelalterlichen Betriebseinheit von produktion und Absatz im Metallhandwerk,, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1983, ISSN 0722-4532.
Hayo Vierck, 'Hallenfreude. Archäologische Spuren frühmittelalterlicher Trinkgelage und mögliche Wege der Deutung', in Detlef Altenburg, Jörg Jarnut and Hans-Hugo Steinhoff, Feste und Feiern im Mittelalter. Paderborner Symposion des Mediävistenverbandes, .
Kurt Schietzel, Hayo Vierck, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen and Barbara R. Armbruster, Berichte über die Ausgrabungen in Haithabu, Vol.34, Wachholtz, January 1, 2002.
