Researchers have connected the identity of skeletal remains found in a well at Norway's Sverresborg castle to a passage in a centuries-old Norse text
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Archaeologists are investigating the possibility Vikings used shortcuts over land to help them move warships and smaller boats around Scotland's west coast
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What sort of pets did medieval people keep?
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The Vikings were part of a global network trading in ivory from Greenland
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Archaeologist Cat Jarman, a Viking Age specialist, joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Vikings
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Rates of violence in Viking Age Norway and Denmark were long believed to be comparable. A team of researchers now challenges that assumption.
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Did Rome know about Scandinavia and the Vikings?
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Archaeology student unearths seven spectacular Viking-era curled silver arm rings north of Denmark's second-largest city Aarhus
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Chef cooks from 720 year old cook book
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A new exhibition opening at Denmark's National Museum is exploring the history and legacy of a mysterious female Viking sorceress known as the Völva
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Blacksmiths are reconstructing a Viking ship to better understand the secrets of the navigation of Scandinavian warriors a thousand years ago
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The Canterbury Tales, or, how technology changes the way we speak
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Medieval historian and game developer, Jason Kingsley CBE, reacts to Manor Lords
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Free Companies: The age of mercenary companies
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Eleanor Johnson on how medieval christian writers accepted ecological collapse in contrast to evangelicals today
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The making of Pentiment
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What happened when you visited a medieval inn?
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Bread in the Middle Ages
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Modern Viking music: Tragedy of a misunderstood art
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Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads
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The Vikings and the Muslim scholar
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If we shoot a 140lb draw weight English longbow from a five story medieval tower, how much further will the arrows go?
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Advice for time traveling to medieval Europe
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The Canterbury Tales Project collated the Canterbury Tales original manuscripts. It translates each line into modern English and reads it aloud into the way the text wold be read in its own time.
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How Denmark destroyed Greenland: Brief history of Denmark's colonialism in Greenland
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Another gold treasure discovery in Norway – thirty-five 1400 year old gold foil figures found in a pagan temple near Hov
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Vikings and glass windows
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Denmark's first Viking queen was likely more powerful than the king, research finds
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Norwegian family finds Viking-era relics while searching for a lost gold earring in their garden
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There's a belief that some form of cider was made by Vikings in Norway, and today, its growing popularity has people convinced it's the country's national drink
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Solar storm confirms Vikings were settled in North America in 1021AD
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Metal detectorist makes Norway's ‘gold find of century’ – cache comprised nine gold medallions and gold pearls that once formed an opulent necklace, as well as three gold rings
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The Pictish Problem - Genetics of Scotland
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Capturing the spirit of ancient seafaring, the reconstructed Viking sailboat "Saga Farmann" has successfully completed an epic journey from Norway's Tønsberg to Istanbul
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What's the difference between medieval inns, taverns, and alehouses?
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Medieval gaming piece in soapstone with runic inscription discovered in Trondheim, Norway
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By studying dig sites, sagas and ancient cookbooks, a culinary archaeologist is recreating dishes the Vikings ate – and rewriting the popular view of these people in the process
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What was it like celebrating a birthday in the middle ages?
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Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark – artefacts believed to date back to 980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumn
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A Gaelic-speaking warrior queen called Aud is central to an emerging theory that Scottish and Irish Celts played a far bigger role in Iceland's history than realised
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Scientists have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark
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Vikings brought their animals to England, research suggests – experts find evidence at Derbyshire cremation site of horses and dogs originating from the Baltic Shield
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The case of the medieval castle and the opportunity cost of warfare
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Archaeologists with the Nordjyske Museer in Denmark have found the remains of a large, thousand-year-old homestead, which they believe may have been a Viking hall
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Did Vikings find their way to a remote part of Oklahoma? Some in a small community believe so, thanks to controversial runic carvings found in the area.
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Caravaggio was the other Michelangelo of the Renaissance
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Forgotten archive of medieval books and manuscripts discovered in Romanian church
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As Häxan turns 100, this utterly chilling silent film deserves more celebration – given it set the template for The Blair Witch Project and many more horrors besides
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The treadmill/treadwheel crane sounds like something from Astérix or the Flintstones. But at Guédelon in France, not only do they have one, they're using it to help build their brand new castle.
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Viking-era sword hilt found near grave of 'Gausel Queen' by amateur detectives – only twenty similar swords of this type have been found in Norway
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