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Eagle-Eyed Man Discovers Rare Viking Arm Ring That May Have Been Lost in a Marsh in Sweden 1,000 Years AgoLast fall, a Swedish man spotted something in a marsh on Oland, Sweden’s second-largest island. At first, he thought the ...
A passerby discovered a rare Viking-era iron bracelet in a wetland on the Swedish island of Öland. The open-ended bracelet ...
Two wounds in the skull were probably made by a spear, and marks on the spine suggest ... before the traditional beginning of the Viking Age. More evidence for early contact between the Vikings ...
New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.
Dubbed the Melsonby hoard, more than 800 Iron Age artefacts were discovered by metal detectorist Peter Heads near the North ...
Under these conditions, the preservation of any Viking-Age structures is rare. “It’s crazy what they’ve found in such a small space when you think about it,” Irene told the News & Star.
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