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COSMIC RAY DISCOVERY BOTH CONFIRMS AND COMPLICATES VIKING LEGEND
To see more Viking articles, click here. By ELANA SPIVACK LEIF ERIKSON, SON OF VIKING EXPLORER ERIK THE RED, was many things — an explorer in his own right, he played a starring role in 10th century Norse geopolitics. But he was also a deeply religious man. And like so many explorers with designs on settling new lands, heContinue reading “COSMIC RAY DISCOVERY BOTH CONFIRMS AND COMPLICATES VIKING LEGEND”
Viking Age Iceland: Weather Calamities
This is Part 38 of our ongoing series about Viking Age Iceland. For centuries, this island country, unique in Medieval Europe, operated with no king, no great lords, no foreign policy, and no defense forces but which developed legal and judicial systems to limit the violence of bloodfeud and protect the rights of freemen. Far out in the North Atlantic, Iceland was where theContinue reading “Viking Age Iceland: Weather Calamities”
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British Teenager Discovers Rare Bronze Age Ax Hoard
To see more Viking articles, click here. Milly Hardwick, a 13-year-old from Suffolk, stumbled onto a cache of 65 artifacts dated to around 1300 B.C.E. By David Kindy Milly Hardwick was searching for buried treasure in a field in Hertfordshire, England, when her metal detector pinged. The 13-year-old’s father, Colin, joked that she’d found anContinue reading “British Teenager Discovers Rare Bronze Age Ax Hoard”