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The people of Shetland, a group of islands north of Scotland, are welcoming the arrival of spring in dramatic style – by burning viking longships. Up Helly Aa was first celebrated in 1881 and is unique to these islands. But it’s a tradition that is evolving, with a woman at the heart of it forContinue reading “Torching tradition as first woman raises the axe for Shetland’s Vikings”

By Kelsey Berish  A group of volunteer archaeologists made their way to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, one of the British Isles. The land is known to have ties with medieval Christianity, and the explorers were eager to learn more about its ancient artifacts and Viking history. What they weren’t expecting was to find somethingContinue reading “When Archaeologists Dug Beneath This Holy Island, They Uncovered A Breathtaking Viking Relic”

BY TIM NEWCOMB The perfect conditions of s Swedish wetland kept the fragile treasure preserved for centuries. A passerby discovered a rare Viking-era iron bracelet in a wetland on the Swedish island of Öland. The open-ended bracelet style is rare in large part because of the use of iron. Officials plan to undergo a deeperContinue reading “A Passerby Went for a Casual Stroll—and Stumbled Upon a 1,000-Year-Old Viking Artifact”

By Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi Languages evolve and change drastically over time. If you were to say street corn, nepo baby, or beach read — three terms recently added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary — to early English speakers, they’d likely think you were speaking a different language.  English borrows a lot of words from differentContinue reading “How Old Norse of the Vikings Influenced the English Language”

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