Ahmad ibn Fadlan wrote the only eyewitness account of a viking funeral.
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A marketplace argument led to the emergence of a key eyewitness account of a Viking burial on the Volga river
A farmer paddles to his fields on an artificial island among canals, part of an ancient Aztec system known as chinampas, in 2021.
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Agricultural sustainability is as much about power and sovereignty as it is about soil, water and crops.
Catan experienced a revival over the pandemic. However, the most potent and painful relationship between Catan and our world today remains largely unexamined.
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The Settlers of Catan codified a certain kind of game play based on the history of settler colonialism.
King Alfred the Great inciting the Anglo Saxons to repel the invasion of the Danes.
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Not a simple tale of English kings overcoming Vikings, the creation of England involved far more bureaucracy than the epic legends let on
Illustration of the graves by Mirosław Kuźma.
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The findings suggest that the depth of the relationships Viking-age people had with animals have been dramatically underrepresented.
(Clockwise from left): American civil war soldier Frances Hook; 19th century Dahomey women soldiers; defending a besieged German city in 1615; 18th century British soldier Hannah Snell and Union soldier Frances Clayton. Sources:
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Fighting in sieges, an army of crack female troops, cross-dressing as male soldiers: women have survived and thrived as part of the war machine. But they’re rarely included in military histories.
Pictish stones feature distinctive symbols.
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The genetic study challenges previous theories about the origins and culture of the Picts.
Chris Hemsworth as Thor in Marvel Studios’ The Dark World from 2013.
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Ancient tales of gods and heroes and medieval Scandinavia help us make sense of things like masculinity, betrayal, revenge and the end of the world.
More people moved into Scandinavia in Viking times than at any other time period analysed in the study.
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DNA analysis reveals a large migration of people into Scandinavia during Viking times.
The Vikings got to the Americas long before Columbus.
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Columbus’s was the last of at least seven discoveries of the Americas.
Jarl Borg is one of the victims of the Blood Eagle in the show Vikings.
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An exhaustive reassessment of the brutal ritual challenges the received wisdom that the ‘blood eagle’ was a medieval invention.
Artist’s impression of the viking camp established in 873 at Repton (Derbyshire, England).
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Viking camps across western Europe were carefully planned and organised venues, offering their occupants much more than just a place to safely rest their heads.
The Vikings are coming: the re-enactment of 9th-centory attacks on Catoira, northwestern Spain.
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Archaeologists and historians are revealing the facts behind the Viking raids, which are celebrated with a fiesta every August.
As this reconstructed village shows, Vikings made it as far as Newfoundland during the Medieval warm period.
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During the European Middle Ages, parts of the world experienced warming similar to that between 1960 to 1990. But the rising temperatures we’re observing now are global and exceed the past record.
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Netflix is making a live action series based on Assassin’s Creed. With its promise of endless return and varied historical settings, the game has been an enduring success.
The abbey of St Genevieve in Paris was destroyed during the French revolution.
Nicolas Ransonnette (1745-1810). Dessinateur (illustrator) - Bibliothèque nationale de France
Stephen of Tournai wanted Denmark to pay damages for Viking raids on France three centuries before.
‘The Meeting of Two Worlds,’ a sculpture at L'Anse aux Meadows, commemorates the meeting of Vikings and Native Americans around the year 1000.
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The allure of novel goods was so strong that it triggered 1,000 years of trade and interactions among people from different places, but there were limits on globalization then that no longer exist,
Christians?
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The Viking world was as much populated by missionary kings, bishops and saints as it was by raiders, gods and giants.
New arrivals boosted Irish numbers and shared their DNA.
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Vikings may have helped turn around Ireland’s declining population.
The hall of the reconstructed Iron Age house at Ullandhaug, Stavanger.
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The Viking Age but not as you know it.