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A Viking-age rock crystal jar previously owned by a bishop which was part of a hoard found by a metal detectorist is to go on ...
As Arjen Spießwinkel searched along the banks of the Schlei River in northern Germany with his metal detector, he uncovered a ...
Ciril Jazbec The 700-year-old Viking church in Hvalsey was mentioned in a 1424 letter sent to Iceland—the last anyone heard from Viking Greenland. Ciril Jazbec The last news of Greenland’s ...
It is a church renowned for its 850-year-old Viking door, with visitors making the journey to see it and the ornate doorway where it is housed, but it is the roof on Grade I listed St Helen’s ...
A 1,000-year-old viking buckle depicting an unknown animal ... style displayed in the buckle can be found at the Urnes Stave Church, a 12th century wooden structure in western Norway, researchers ...
A great famine followed these signs; and a little after that, in the same year on 8 June, the harrying of the heathen miserably destroyed God's church ... the impact of Old Norse on the Old ...
Archaeologists excavated a mountainside farm in Norway and uncovered 1,100-year-old silver treasure buried by the Vikings, photos show. Photo from Anniken Celine Berger, Archaeological Museum at ...