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A 50-year-old man has admitted stealing Viking helmets in a raid on the Ulster Museum. Adil Hajjaj also accepted taking a ...
​​A 50-year-old man has admitted stealing Viking helmets in a raid on the Ulster Museum. Adil Hajjaj also accepted taking a ...
More than a century ago, archaeologists excavated a Viking ship buried in the ground at the Oseberg farm in Tønsberg, Norway.
A new study shows that pregnancies during the Viking Age were far from a private matter, closely tied to conflict, social ...
Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where ...
What it tells us about the past: More than a century ago, archaeologists excavated a Viking ship buried in the ground at the Oseberg farm in Tønsberg, Norway. Inside the unusually well-preserved ...
They are often depicted as bloodthirsty, unwashed warriors with winged helmets. But that's a poor picture based largely on Viking portrayals in the 19th century, when they featured in European art ...
Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge ... kings and battles – such as the highly romanticised Viking age (the period from AD800 until AD1050).