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Viking Age Iceland: The Nature of the Goðorð
This is 83 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: The Nature of the Goðorð”
Bog Bodies Were Overwhelmingly Killed By Violence, Analysis Of 1,000 Bodies Finds
By JAMES FELTON Some of the bodies were likely placed in the bogs as a ritual. A team of researchers has analyzed over 1,000 bog bodies, finding that many of them met violent ends, and nearly all of them were placed in bogs intentionally. Peat is created through the decomposition of organic matter, largely fromContinue reading “Bog Bodies Were Overwhelmingly Killed By Violence, Analysis Of 1,000 Bodies Finds”