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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How Christianity took over pagan Scandinavia
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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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Archaeologist Cat Jarman, a Viking Age specialist, joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Vikings
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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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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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Finding faith in the gods of the Vikings – Richard didn't expect his hobby would help him find his own belief through Norse mythology
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