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Much of what we know about Viking and early Scandinavian society, and the voyages of discovery by Leif Erikson, come from their written records. The reason these records survived the sands of time is ...

The Vikings are often portrayed as illiterate, uncultured barbarians who evinced more interest in plunder than in poetry. In fact, the Vikings left behind a great number of documents in stone, wood ...

Like many important discoveries, it happened by accident. Alena Slamova, a Czech graduate student in archaeology, was routinely washing some animal bones that had been recovered from a dig in an early ...