Vikings who reached the Americas 500 years before Christopher Columbus – exploration was retold, centuries later, in sagas that were the stuff of epic literature rather than history books
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A pair of ancient runestones in Jelling tell the story of the Viking king who shaped Denmark – and inspired the name Bluetooth
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Denmark's largest Viking Age silver hoard, consisting of around 700 pieces, discovered in backyard according to Danish cultural organization Nordjyske Museer
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Archaeologists in Denmark discover rare fragments of 1,300-year-old clothing preserved inside a Viking age grave
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Swedish nonprofit owner of Viking ship used in The Odyssey says studio has not paid bill for damage
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Shropshire blacksmith is part of a team that has been invited to Denmark to forge an authentic anchor for a reconstructed Viking ship
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I sail the world in a replica 10th-century Viking longboat – it has brought new friendships and showed me how generous people can be
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Archaeologists have discovered a huge Viking Age textile production site in Denmark – dates back more than 1,000 years and underlines the sophistication of Viking society
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Swedish fisherman digging for worms stumbles upon cache of silver coins, beads, rings and pendants dating to the 12th century
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The high‑tech shipbuilding methods that helped Vikings dominate the seas
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Erling Haaland donated a rare 16th-Century book of Viking sagas, worth £100,000, to be displayed in the library in the Norwegian town of Bryne, where he grew up
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What are important historical books lost to time?
Not just books from the 1800s or 1900s, but even older. 1400s, 800s, 100s, books from BCE, etc. It can be fiction or non-fiction. If a small blurb about the book could be provided and its...
Not just books from the 1800s or 1900s, but even older. 1400s, 800s, 100s, books from BCE, etc. It can be fiction or non-fiction.
If a small blurb about the book could be provided and its significance that would be great.
Additionally, if you could help direct me or provide guidance on where I can get a hold of the book (digitally or physically), that’d be appreciated.
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Runic inscriptions from the Viking Age still turn up in Sweden 1,000 years after they were written – revealing fascinating stories of love, loss and epic battles
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Maritime archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum in Denmark have announced the discovery of what they describe as the world’s largest cog
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For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune—about 115 yards to their new home in Oslo
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Denmark's National Museum unveils gaming piece which is believed to be the first portrait of a Viking – figurine depicts man with imperial moustache, braided beard and a neatly-groomed hairstyle
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Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit with a vulgar name that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear?
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Viking longship to sail through Tower Bridge – the Saga Farmann departed Tønsberg in Norway and has been sailing around Europe (with a few land transport gaps)
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How Christianity took over pagan Scandinavia
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10th-century burial site believed to have belonged to a Viking noble family has been discovered in northern Denmark
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In 1903, a Norwegian farmer discovered an ornate piece of wood sticking out of the mud – one year later, an almost totally intact Viking ship burial had been uncovered
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Do not try this at home: Medieval medicine under the spotlight in major new project
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The Viking Age is undergoing a revisionist transformation based on studies of artifacts and documents tying them to the Silk Road
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Why the island of Bornholm is Danish and not German, Swedish or Polish
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Danish archaeological discovery has raised questions about the origins of the iconic Sutton Hoo helmet, thought for decades to have links to Sweden
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Some of the world's most famous chess pieces, the Lewis chessmen from the 12th century, are coming “home” to Trondheim this spring in a special exhibition
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Cheomseongdae: the oldest surviving astronomical observatory in East Asia
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Archaeologists discover stash of 1,500-year-old weapons – includes the only known Roman helmet ever found in Denmark
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Advice for time traveling to Medieval Europe
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Denmark has dropped the Three Crowns, a symbol of the Kalmar Union since the 14th century, from its own coat of arms
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Coinage and the tyranny of fantasy ‘gold’
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Dozens of sites linked to the Viking great army as it ravaged Anglo-Saxon England more than 1,000 years ago have been discovered
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Lost Silk Road cities were just discovered using new tech - high altitude communities challenge previous consensus about life in Central Asia
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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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