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By Owen Jarus – Live Science Contributor December 04, 2019  (Image: © NIKU)   The remains of a Viking ship have been discovered on a farm near a medieval church at Edøy, on the island of Smøla, in Norway. The ship, which is 52 to 56 feet (16 to 17 meters) long, appears to be part of aContinue reading “Radar Uncovers Viking Ship Buried on Norway Farm”

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“When a language dies,” said writer, philosopher, and critic George Steiner, “A way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.” Undoubtedly he is correct. Numerous studies have demonstrated the relationship between language and perception of time, language and memory, and even claimed that the language we speak shapes consciousness itself. AtContinue reading “The Forgotten Language of the West: Rediscovering Old Norse, Spoken by Icelanders and Vikings”

By Tom Metcalfe The god house (shown here in a digital reconstruction) was strongly built of beams and walls of wood; some lasted for hundreds of years. It included a central tower, patterned on Christian churches seen in lands further south.(Image: © University Museum of Bergen) The remains of a 1,200-year-old pagan temple to the OldContinue reading “1,200-year-old pagan temple to Thor and Odin unearthed in Norway”