To see more Viking articles, click here. By Ian Sample, Science editor DNA tests on ancient bones show men were related and died following violent incidents The skeletons of two Viking age men who were related but died on opposite sides of the North Sea are to be reunited in an exhibition in Copenhagen thisContinue reading “Skeletons of Viking men to be reunited in Danish exhibition”
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Viking Age Iceland: Internal Trade and Hay Harvesting
This is Part 33 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: Internal Trade and Hay Harvesting”
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Solar storm confirms Vikings settled in North America exactly 1,000 years ago
To see more Viking articles, click here. By Caroline Davies Analysis of wood from timber-framed buildings in Newfoundland shows Norse-built settlement 471 years before Columbus Half a millennium before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic, the Vikings reached the “New World”, as the remains of timber buildings at L’Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip ofContinue reading “Solar storm confirms Vikings settled in North America exactly 1,000 years ago”
Viking Age Iceland: Diet
This is Part 32 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: Diet”