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Laser Tech Reveals 1,000-Year-Old Viking Ring Fortress in Denmark
... a 10 th century king who Christianized both Denmark and Norway. Architectural Achievements of the Vikings In 2014, ... UK , "We have barely any other similar fortresses in Norway or Sweden, and in Denmark there are no other very ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 14/08/2017 - 14:00
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History’s REAL Faces: 15 Death Masks of Famous and Infamous Figures
... virtuous young warrior king. During his invasion of Norway in 1718, he was shot in the head and killed during the ...
Joanna Gillan - 28/10/2022 - 01:59
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Ancient Bog Mummies Reveal Secrets of their Identity
... grew on terrains typical of northern Scandinavia, such as Norway or Sweden. Frei also did an analysis of strontium ... in Iron Age archaeology at the University of Oslo in Norway, said: "We will never be able to uncover the ...
aprilholloway - 20/07/2014 - 05:12
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Did the Vikings use crystal sunstones to discover America?
... that cause depolarisation. Around the coastline of Norway and Iceland are found crystalline chunks of calcium ... the position of the sun, of a Viking voyage between Norway, southern Greenland and Newfoundland. They found that ...
ancient-origins - 30/01/2016 - 13:12
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The Viking Fortress that Burned: Arson Investigator to Analyze 1,000-Year-Old Crime Scene
... peninsula that juts into the North Sea toward Sweden and Norway. Harald's kingdom in red and his vassals and allies in ... of the Danes to Christianity. Around 970 he conquered Norway. His descendants would rule England for a time. His ...
Mark Miller - 06/07/2016 - 14:51
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With Portals to the Dead, Viking Homes Were Stranger Than Fiction
... together the archaeological remains of longhouses from Norway in research for my book, Architecture, Society and ... as well as shape, social and spatial order. In Viking Age Norway, people were made to be different – owners and ...
ancient-origins - 02/09/2019 - 18:26
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Dispute Over Evidence Of Cannabis Use By Vikings In North America
... discovered an isolated Iron Age farm in southern Norway at which traces of cannabis were found dating between ... However, just because Vikings grew cannabis in ancient Norway , it would be wrong to assume therefore that a group ...
ashley cowie - 16/07/2019 - 22:54
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Why Would You Cremate and Bury Your Home? A Bizarre Viking Ritual Explained
... essence, some kind of soul.” ‘Viking Long house door. Norway, Epcot Center.’ (One Lucky Guy/ CC BY NC SA 2.0 ) ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 26/04/2017 - 14:01
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The Shameful History of Human Zoos: Displaying ‘Exotic Foreigners’ Only Stopped 60 Years Ago
... at the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition in Christiania Oslo, Norway. (Anne-Sophie Ofrim / CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Human Zoos Come ...
dhwty - 01/02/2019 - 18:56
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New Finds at the Well-Preserved Wreck of the Formidable Warship Mars
... which was fought between Sweden and a coalition of Denmark-Norway, Lübeck and Poland, broke out. On May 29 in the following year, Sweden fought against Denmark-Norway and Lübeck at the first battle of Öland in the ...
dhwty - 21/07/2018 - 01:13
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Girl Finds Pre-Viking Sword While Wading in Swedish Lake
... Recently divers found a Viking era sword in Lake Mjøsa in Norway , which was possibly used in executions. Also, in Norway four hunters found a very well-preserved sword on a ...
Ed Whelan - 04/10/2018 - 21:55
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7 Phantom Islands We Never Really Discovered
... , the Faroes, or had even sailed as far as Iceland or Norway. Another theory is that the island could have been ... map, Frisland was shown to be around halfway between Norway and Scotland’s most northeastern point. In the ...
Robbie Mitchell - 23/01/2023 - 17:58
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New Study Finds Salmonella Brought by Europeans Caused Epidemic that Wiped Out 80% of the Aztecs
... 1200 and whose remains were in a cemetery in Trondheim, Norway. This is the first evidence that the disease was ... Schroeder, said the presence of Salmonella Paratyphi C in Norway 300 years earlier than the so-called conquest of the ...
Mark Miller - 21/02/2017 - 13:54
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Pre-Columbian Latin Text Proves Early Knowledge of the Americas
... from “sailors who frequent the seas of Denmark and Norway.” This makes it easy to credit the discovery of the ... believed. But now, it is obvious that people outside of Norway and Denmark knew about the Viking landings in ...
Nathan Falde - 04/10/2021 - 18:39
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In the Wake of the Stronsay Globster
... Bishop Erik Pontoppidan's 1755 work Natural History of Norway. Stand aside for the sceptics Renowned anatomist Sir ...
ashley cowie - 27/03/2017 - 18:58
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Futhark: Mysterious Ancient Runic Alphabet of Northern Europe
... - as was the case with a rune inscribed whetstone found in Norway. Experts appealed to the public for assistance in ... and long-branch (Danish). It was the main alphabet in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark throughout the Viking Age , and ...
Bryan Hill - 29/08/2019 - 19:11
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The Archetypal Origins Of Norse And Celtic Sea Deities
... of the Orkney Islanders ) and Hversu Noregr byggdisk ( How Norway Was Settled ) talk of Fornjót the jötunn king having ...
ashley cowie - 28/03/2022 - 18:22
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The Controversial Origins of the Maine Penny, A Norse Coin found in a Native American Settlement
... cited as similar to the Maine Penny. (Coin of Olaf III of Norway) Public Domain Given that the Goddard site was ...
dhwty - 01/03/2015 - 12:46
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De-faced Skulls and Babies Were Buried in Viking Homes
... in the 2007 book Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway , was described as beheaded in the wars with gods and ...
ashley cowie - 05/05/2020 - 01:57
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St Knut’s Day: Jan 13 - The Scandinavian Fun Finale To Christmas!
... as they circle the tree several times to the tune. Though Norway is not particularly known for their overt celebration ... is not as celebrated throughout Sweden, Finland, and Norway as it once was, St Knut’s Day has not died out just ...
Lex Leigh - 13/01/2023 - 13:59