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Why Everything You Know About Vikings Is A Lie
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Why Did Greenland's Vikings Vanish?
Newly discovered evidence is upending our understanding of how early settlers made a life on the island -- and why they suddenly disappeared
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Immigration to Denmark is nothing new … just ask the Vikings
A Viking grave in Randers shows evidence of early globalisation.
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How to Eat Like a Viking
All that marauding must have left the Vikings famished.
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Galloway Viking Hoard Campaign launched
A new campaign has been launched to keep the Galloway Viking Hoard for exhibition in the county where it was found. Buried in the 10th century, the hoard was discovered by a metal detectorist in field near Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, in September of 2014. Archaeologists excavated the hoard and found more than 100 silver and gold pieces, from ingots to jewelry to fragments of Byzantine silk to an extremely rare Carolingian pot stuffed with more treasure. The Galloway Viking Hoard is the largest Viking treasure found in Scotland since 1891.
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360° Video: Vikings and Slavs Reenactors Face off in an Epic Battle
Charge into the fray of an epic Viking battle with over 600 hardcore reenactors armed with swords and axes. More than a mere blood sport, the climax of the Wolin Viking Festival in Poland is a mecca for “experimental archaeology."
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Viking boat burial found on British mainland
Mainly found in Scandinavia, Viking boat burials are as rare as they are fascinating.
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Major Viking Age manor discovered at Birka, Sweden
For centuries it has been speculated where the manor of the royal bailiff of Birka, Herigar, might have been located. New geophysical results provide evidence of its location at Korshamn, outside the town rampart of the Viking Age proto-town Birka in Sweden. The results will be published in the international scientific journal Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt.
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Awesome Knitted Viking Hat + Beard Combo
Take my money!
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Rare 1,500-year-old Odin amulet found in Denmark
An exceptional year for Danish archaeologists just keeps getting better.
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1,000-Year-Old Viking Toolbox Found at Mysterious Danish Fortress
A Viking toolbox found in Denmark has been opened for the first time in 1,000 years, revealing an extraordinary set of iron hand tools that may have been used to make Viking ships and houses, according to archaeologists.
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Barbaric Beauty
We might applaud the tall, blond and ruggedly handsome Vikings of pop culture as being historically accurate, but authentic engagement with the past requires more than just convincing hair and make-up, says Oren Falk.
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Vikings never wore horned helmets. Here's why we think they did.
The horned Viking helmet is a classic image —but it only dates back to a 19th century opera costume.
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Hnefatafl: the Game of the Vikings
A website discussing the Hnefatafl, a game played by the Scandinavian peoples during the middle ages.
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Discovery Could Rewrite History of Vikings in New World
It’s a two-mile trudge through forested, swampy ground to reach Point Rosee, a narrow, windswept peninsula stretching from southern Newfoundland into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Last June, a team of archaeologists was drawn to this remote part of Canada by a modern-day treasure map: satellite imagery revealing ground features that could be evidence of past human activity.
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View From Space Hints at a New Viking Site in North America
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The Viking city that WILL rise from the depths
Jorvik, York's most famous museum, found itself under water following the Boxing Day floods that deluged York.
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Scientists find 1500-year-old Viking settlement beneath new airport site
When Norway announced plans to expand its Ørland Airport this year, archaeologists got excited. They knew that pre-construction excavation was likely to reveal ancient Viking artifacts. But they got far more than they had hoped.
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The Saga Of Biorn
Biôrn, an old Viking, is determined to reach Valhalla, the warrior's afterlife full of excessive drinking and debauchery. To gain entry he has to die honorably in battle, but he discovers that the right death isn't so easy.
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Thor's Fishing Trip
This storyteller at Fotevikens Museum tells a tale of Thor, who went on a rather interesting fishing trip.
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