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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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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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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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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What happened when you visited a medieval inn?
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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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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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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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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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