Vikings

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• 8/29/2021
  

  New Discoveries Chip Away at Myths about Viking Shipbuilding

  by Nancy Marie Brown

  Recent archaeological work, and field-testing of replica boats, is overturning the common image of the Viking warship. 

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• SOURCE: Science
  9/16/2020
  

  ‘Viking’ Was a Job Description, Not a Matter of Heredity, Massive Ancient DNA Study Shows

  A large DNA study of samples from Viking remains casts doubt on the idea that participation was a hereditary or ethnic phenomenon. Being a Viking was a job. 

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• SOURCE: Scientific American
  7/11/2019
  

  Viking History Is Melting Away in Greenland

  Climate change is already rotting archaeological sites in the Arctic, and Norse Viking-era settlements are at high risk

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• 8-20-17
  

  We Shouldn’t Let the Racists Own the Vikings

  by Linnea Hartsuyker

  Why I wrote a novel about the Vikings and what I learned about them.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  5-31-17
  

  White supremacists love Vikings. But they’ve got history all wrong.

  by David Perry

  Why the accused Portland killer and others see Vinland as an inspiration.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-10-16
  

  Vikings Possibly Spread Smooth-Riding Horses Around the World

  DNA analysis of ancient horse remains suggests that ambling horses arose in England and Iceland before spreading to the rest of Eurasia.

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• 4-9-16
  

  Who Really Discovered America?

  by Ed Simon

  That’s a complicated and fraught question that no fresh discovery of the Vikings’ presence, however important, can answer.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-17-15
  

  Norway Again Embraces the Vikings, Minus the Violence

  Formerly a teacher and jewelry maker in Denmark, Jeppe Nordmann Garly last month began a new job on a hillside campus in central Norway as the director of Scandinavia’s first government-funded training course on how to live like a Viking.

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• SOURCE: Hakai
  7-28-15
  

  Ancient Vikings Settled Greenland for the Ivory

  New archaeological research hints at a new reason for Vikings’ Greenland occupation.

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  9-17-14
  

  How the Vikings Saved Europe and Got a Terrible Reputation

  History teaches us that the Vikings were brutal, thieving invaders, but much of that history was written by Viking victims: European monks. New evidence says otherwise.

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• 9-28-14
  

  Six Things You Didn't Know About the Vikings

  by Anders Winroth

  There was more to the Vikings then their reputation suggests.

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• SOURCE: OUP blog
  8-29-14
  

  Vikings are having a great year!

  by Julian Richards

  In March a blockbuster exhibition opened in the new BP Gallery at the British Museum and tens of thousands have flocked to see the largest collection of Viking treasure ever to be displayed in the British Isles.

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• SOURCE: LiveScience
  3-25-14
  

  Medieval compass guided Vikings after sunset

  The remains of the supposed compass — known as the Uunartoq disc— were found in Greenland in 1948 in an 11th-century convent.

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• SOURCE: Medievalists.net
  2-7-14
  

  PhD researcher cracks Norse rune codes

  With the discovery, the mysterious runes can now be translated. They read "kiss me." Seriously.

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• SOURCE: Nautilus
  1-21-14
  

  Social Networks in Norse Sagas

  Vikings -- turns out they're just like us.

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• SOURCE: Heritage Daily
  11-2-13
  

  Norwegian Vikings purchased silk from Persia

  Norway was deeply involved in the silk trade.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  10-24-13
  

  Viking 'parliament' discovered under parking lot in Scotland

  A Viking parliamentary site that dates to the 11th century has been found beneath a parking lot in Scotland.

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• SOURCE: Coventry University
  10-1-13
  

  Research suggests Vikings more social than savage

  Viking culture was surprisingly complex.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8-21-13
  

  Vikings didn’t find Faroes first (they were 500 years late)

  The North Atlantic islands were populated five hundred years earlier than previously thought.

• SOURCE: RealClearScience
  7-17-13
  

  Old Arabic texts describe 'filthy' Vikings

  "They are the filthiest of all Allah’s creatures: they do not purify themselves after excreting or urinating or wash themselves when in a state of ritual impurity after coitus and do not even wash their hands after food."The Arab writer Ahmad ibn Fadlan noted the above after meeting Viking travellers around a thousand years ago.The Icelandic historian Thorir Jonsson Hraundal has studied comments about what we call Vikings in original texts by Arab historians and geographers. The texts described Arab encounters with Scandinavians in areas around the Caspian Sea and the Volga River. Their depictions differ radically from images of fearsome Viking conquerors handed down from the British Isles and France in the same era....