SCOTS ARCHAEOLOGISTS DIGGING FOR TWO VIKING BOAT BURIAL SITES ON ISLE OF MULLL
Scots archaeologists will start digging where two possible Viking boat burial sites are thought to be hidden on the Isle of Mull...
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Aug 30, 20224 min read
ICELAND’S ANCIENT CAVES REVEAL THE ISLAND’S VIKING EARLY HISTORY
Iceland’s early viking settlers built extensive cave systems to survive...
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Aug 22, 20223 min read
A 1,500-YEAR-OLD PRE-VIKING ARROW AND A VIKING ARROW ARE FOUND IN NORWAY
Norwegian explorers have found two arrows, after it was left exposed by melting ice...
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Aug 10, 20222 min read
DONE! HEREFORDSHIRE VIKING HOARD TO 'COME HOME' AFTER FUNDRAISER
A hoard of Viking treasure has been bought by a council's museum service...
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Aug 4, 20224 min read
THE VIKING AGE'S DERRYNAFLAN HOARD
One of the most exciting archaeological finds in the history of Irish art was unearthed on Tipperary's Derrynaflan Island by a man and...
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Jul 14, 20225 min read
THE LOST VIKING VILLAGE OF KAUPANG
Kaupang was a harbor town supposedly located within the larger district known in the literature as “Skiringssal”...
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Jul 7, 20222 min read
VIKING VILLAGE ATTRACTION WAS APPROVED BY ISLE OF MAN
The project will provide an interactive experience for visitors to glimpse the island's Norse history...
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Jun 27, 20228 min read
IN JUNE OF 793AD, THE VIKINGS ATTACKED LINDISFARNE, KNOW HOW IT WAS
One such day was the 8 June, 793. That was the day the Vikings attacked the monastery at Lindisfarne...
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Jun 24, 20222 min read
GOVERNMENT U-TURN SAVES NEW VIKING AGE MUSEUM, WILL IT BE?
Norway's Viking ships can finally look forward to an improved home following the government's change of heart on funding...
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May 30, 20223 min read
OSLO’S FAMOUS VIKING SHIPS AT RISK AS DEMANDS BUDGET CUTS
Ten years ago, experts concluded that the three world-famous Viking ships on display at Oslo’s Viking Ship Museum needed a new home...
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Apr 19, 202210 min read
THE REAL-HISTORY OF THE FAMOUS VIKING SIEGES OF PARIS
Ninth-century France proved very lucrative for the Vikings. It was a land marred by civil war and bad harvests, and the Norsemen took adv...
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Apr 8, 20224 min read
THE PERFECTLY PRESERVED VIKING WEAVER’S SWORD
The Weaver’s Sword is a Viking artefact, believed to date to the late 11th century...
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Mar 28, 20223 min read
£776,250 FUNDRAISER LAUNCHED TO BRING VIKING EARLY MEDIEVAL TREASURE BACK HOME
A campaign has been launched to raise £776,250 to bring a history-changing Viking hoard that was discovered in a field near the south Shr...
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Mar 24, 20223 min read
A VIKING SETTLEMENT MYSTERIOUSLY VANISHED. NOW, WE HAVE AN ANSWER
Scientists pinpoint drought as a likely cause for the abandonment of Greenland's Norse communities...
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Mar 11, 20225 min read
THE HISTORY OF THE VIKINGS IN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND
An app developed by academics at the University of Liverpool aims to change that, and to reveal how important Lancashire and Lakeland were..
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Feb 2, 20222 min read
NORTHAMPTON DEBUT FOR VIKING EXHIBITION WITH REPLICA LONGBOAT
Valhalla at Northampton Museum & Art Gallery will explore Viking attitudes to life and death through 1,000-year-old artefacts...
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Oct 20, 20214 min read
VIKINGS WERE IN THE AMERICAS EXACTLY A THOUSAND YEARS AGO
The Vikings used their longships to cross the Atlantic Ocean and settled in Canada as early as 1021, according to a new study providing...
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Sep 14, 20212 min read
CROSSMICHAEL SET TO PLAY HOST TO SPECIAL VIKING ENCAMPMENT
An encampment will be created in Crossmichael later this month with members of the public given the chance to visit and enjoy craft and...
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Aug 26, 20214 min read
KNOW THE FAROE ISLANDS, FAMOUS BY THE STRONG VIKING PRESENCE.
The forebears of current inhabitants are the Vikings - specifically the Norsemen who started settling these inhospitable islands around...
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Aug 17, 20213 min read
THE IRISH ISLAND OF A VIKING KING
Turgesius was a Viking king who laid waste to many churches in the north Midlands...
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Aug 16, 20214 min read
THE VIKING AGE SPAIN
While Roman, Visigothic and Muslim heritages all live on today in varying degrees, the legacy of the Vikings in Spain is more obscure...
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