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    Viking life and culture

    Gordon Campbell reveals how the Vikings made epic voyages of discovery across the Atlantic a millennium ago. (Image by Getty Images)
    Viking

    Vikings in North America

    Dr Cat Jarman explores the far-reaching trading networks of the Vikings, from the Baltic sea to Asia
    Viking

    The Vikings’ global connections

    From Thor to Odin, Carolyne Larrington discusses the legendary figures of Viking mythology. (Image by Getty Images)
    Viking

    A guide to the Norse gods

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    Photo of statue of Leif Erikson
    Viking

    Leif Erikson’s voyage to Vinland

    A reconstruction of a Viking church
    Viking

    Vikings in America: the Europeans who arrived 500 years before Columbus

    Alexander Ludwig as Bjorn Ironside, son Ragnar Lothbrok and king of Kattegat
    Viking

    Vikings Season 6: plot recap, plus 8 historical questions answered

    Alex Hogh Andersen as Ivar the Boneless
    Viking

    The real Vikings: the early medieval world behind the hit drama

    Vahalla is depicted as a round-topped building in this funerary stone from 8th-century Sweden
    Viking

    Valhalla: fighting and feasting in the Viking warrior afterlife

    A helmet from a chieftain's grave in 10th-century Norway
    Viking

    Inside the Viking mind: the view of the Vikings’ world from 5 perspectives

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    Illustration of the raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne
    Viking

    Slaves in the Viking Age: how prevalent were enslaved people in Viking societies?

    Neil Price takes us inside the Viking mind to explain how the Norse raiders viewed the world and what drove them to expand across the seas. (Image by Getty Images)
    Viking

    Inside the Viking mind

    The Oseberg ship from around AD 820 is one of the most well- preserved Viking ships ever excavated
    Viking

    Viking ships: 5 lesser-known facts

    Professor Jan Bill on the HistoryExtra podcast.
    Viking

    At sea with the Vikings

    Elaborate dragon carvings decorate the prow of the Oseberg longship, circa 800 AD, The Viking Ship Museum, Oslo, Norway (Photo by Alamy)
    Viking

    Viking genes unravelled

    Illustration of Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir
    Viking

    The amazing life of a great female Viking explorer

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