Iceland is bringing back the forests razed by Vikings – recent data shows tree-cultivating efforts are paying off
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The Druzhina - Knights of the Kievan Rus | Units of History
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Did medieval peasants travel?
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The Vikings cut them down, we want to bring them back – bringing back the ancient forests of Iceland
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How did English medieval peasants see themselves?
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part I: Words
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An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery
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Were the Norse the first to settle the Azores? Seafarers may have come and gone from lush archipelago more than 1000 years ago
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Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021
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Women were the unseen healthcare providers of the Middle Ages
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Modern analysis of a 1,000-year-old grave in Finland challenges long-held beliefs about gender roles in ancient societies
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Stephen Fry: The history of the first printing press | The machine that made us
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How to be an atheist in Medieval Europe
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This month Norwegian archaeologists hope to complete their excavation of a rare, buried longship at Gjellestad, an ancient site south-east of Oslo
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The forgotten number system of the Cistercians
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An old Norse 'godhouse' has been discovered in Norway – site reflects how the rise of Christianity to the south affected the worship of the Norse pantheon
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Two Vikings from the same family are to be 'reunited' – DNA evidence has linked the skeleton from Oxford with another skeleton excavated in Denmark
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Dark hair was common among Vikings – research reveals they were a genetically diverse group and not purely Scandinavian
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Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
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Researchers say they have found the world's earliest confirmed case of smallpox, revealing the disease was widespread across northern Europe during the Viking age
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What made the Viking longship so terrifyingly effective?
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The Heavenly Court
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Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century
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How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone
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Black Death, COVID, and why we keep telling the myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and bad Middle Ages
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What's so special about Viking ships? | Jan Bill
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The mysterious erdstall
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Why were notched wood sticks so important in medieval times?
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When monks went undercover to steal relics
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Treasure trove of artifacts illustrates life in a lost Viking mountain pass – Lendbreen, in Norway, was an important route from the Roman era until the late Middle Ages
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How they wore their swords (from approx. 1150-1600)
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"Pyke notte thy nostrellys." A 15th-century guide on children's manners has been digitized for first time
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Board-game piece from period of first Viking raid found on Lindisfarne – small glass crown thought to be rare archaeological link to raiders
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Sweden's Rök runestone reveals inscriptions were as much about climate change fears as they were the history of ancient battles
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Mysterious disappearance of Greenland's medieval Norse society in the 15th century came after walruses were hunted almost to extinction, researchers have said
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Radar uncovers the remains of a Viking ship, discovered on a farm near a medieval church at Edøy in Norway
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Denmark and Iceland clash over priceless medieval manuscripts – Reykjavik wants collection bequeathed by Icelandic scholar returned
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Thousand year old 12cm-long iron arrowhead was found high up in the mountains near Eidfjord in Norway
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West Zealand has given the green light to rebuild a Viking fortress on its original archaeological site, more than 1,000 years after it first stood there
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Icelandic government is interested in reclaiming Old Icelandic manuscripts from Denmark
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Female warrior long assumed to be a Viking may actually be a Slavic warrior woman who migrated to Denmark from present-day Poland
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Iceland tries to bring back trees razed by the Vikings – before being colonised, the island nation was lush with forests
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Swedish authorities have announced the first Viking boat grave discoveries in the country in more than fifty years
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Ten surprising facts about books of beasts from the European middle ages
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'It could change everything': Coin found off northern Australia may be from pre-1400 Africa
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Sack of Constantinople 1204 - Fourth Crusade
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America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’
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Near the end of the Middle Ages a device came into service that helped avid readers: the book carousel or book wheel
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Walrus bones provide clues to fate of lost Viking colony
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