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Viking Age

History

The majority of Norwegian Vikings would travel westward across the North Sea.

A Viking history of Norway: Part 1

Norway has a rich cultural history that stretches back thousands of years. Yet it is for that approximately two-and-a-half century period of Norwegian history from 793 CE to 1066 CE (the Viking era) that attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists to this Scandinavian country every year.

Did Viking berserkers really exist?

The ferocious Viking warriors called berserkers are known for their animalistic battle tactics and terrifying hysteria-like fury and are perhaps the most known type of Viking warrior.

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Did Vikings grow hemp 1300 years ago?

Many Western countries, including those in Scandinavia, are now seriously rethinking the debate about marijuana. The plant Cannabis Sativa has a bit of a bad wrap nowadays throughout Scandinavia.

1 week ago
An Old Saxon poem depicted Jesus as a Viking chief. Here's the story

The Heiland is surely one of the more action-packed retellings of the life of Jesus Christ. This early 9th-century epic poem, written in Old Saxon, was not only 6,000 lines long but retold the story of Jesus in the style of a Germanic epic, not unlike some of the sagas crafted around the same time.

2 weeks ago
Did the Vikings ever reach Sicily?

The Vikings are known for their exceptional ability to venture where their contemporaries could only dream. Case in point - they likely reached Sicily in the south of Italy.

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What you need to know about the majestic Skuldelev Viking ship finds

This year marks the 60th anniversary of one of what was then one of the most ambitious archeological excavations ever attempted in Danish history: the miracle in the Roskilde fjord.

2 weeks ago
The history of Vikings in Canada: A primer

The island of Newfoundland, off the eastern coast of Canada, would not be everyone's first choice for the discovery of a site with such historical importance and significance it would literally rewrite world history.

3 weeks ago
What are the most special Viking artifacts still preserved?

The last Viking longship set sail almost a millennium ago, meaning that artifacts and treasures from this period of time are rare and valuable. However, a few precious artifacts, from Viking societies, in the early medieval period in the North Atlantic world, remain.

3 weeks ago
Here's what you need to know about the famous Myklebust Viking ship

On a farm named Myklebust in western Norway in 1874, an archaeologist began to painstakingly excavate one of 5 burial mounds dotted throughout the fields. Little did Anders Lorange know that he would go on to find the remains of the largest Viking ship ever discovered in Norway.

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