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Geneva’s Viking ship to make landfall in downtown
The Friends of the Viking Ship bought a property in downtown Geneva so the organization could build a museum to house the ...
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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 Ago
Last fall, a Swedish man spotted something in a marsh on Oland, Sweden’s second-largest island. At first, he thought the ...
500-year-old shipwreck turns out to be oldest-of-its-kind find off Sweden. Take a look
Off the southern coast of Sweden sat the ever-shrinking remains of a once-grand ship. Theories about the wreckage had swirled ...
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What You Don’t Know About the Vikings
In Sweden, researchers are studying the remains ... Photograph by ROBERT CLARK-PHOTOGRAPHED AT VIKING SHIP MUSEUM, MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO Around 750 a band of early Viking ...
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Passerby notices something in wetland — and finds rare Viking item in Sweden. See it
Similar Viking armbands have been found before, but these items are typically made of bronze or silver. Sweden’s National Historical Museum has over 1,000 armbands, yet only three are made of ...
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Viking traders and explorers
Viking traders carried a set of folding scales which they used to weigh coins to make sure they got a fair deal. The Oseberg ship was found in 1904 and is now in a museum in Oslo, Norway.