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History says Ivar the Boneless was a ruthless Viking warrior. But why the name boneless? Was he truly disabled, or was there a another more sinister reason for the nickname?

A new Nat Geo documentary series, Vikings: The Rise and Fall, reveals who the Vikings really were.

Both Norwegians and their Viking predecessors have a reputation for being tall. But how true is this really? We take a look at the numbers and the research. A couple of years ago, my Norwegian

Anders Winroth (born in 1965) is a Swedish historian who received his PhD from Columbia in 1996 and now holds an endowed professorship in history at Yale. He has written several books on the Viking Period for lay readers, the latest one of which I've been given to review. The main contents of The Age of the Vikings is organised into eight chapters on:

Glorious dreams and accusations of lies have swirled about the Kensington Runestone for more than a hundred years. In 1898, Olof Öhman, a Swedish immigrant in America, reported that he had found a grey slab of rock carved with runes in a field in Minnesota. It soon became known by the name of the nearby settlement of Kensington. And that’s about the only thing that’s clear about this rock. Was it, as the inscription on the rock suggests, left there by Vikings in 1362? Or was Öhman a liar?...

The right to defend oneself in front of a judge is but one of many legal principles that originate from Medieval canon law. ...

The True Stories Behind These Strange And Mysterious Artifacts By Joseph A. Williams/Feb. 9, 2021 10:24 am EDT From the Sword in the Stone to ancient Egyptian airplanes, strange and mysterious artifacts summon people to put away their iPhones, don a fedora, snap a bullwhip, and get their faces melted. Some artifacts are intoxicating through their storytelling or by the puzzles they present. Basic questions such as who made an item, why they made it, and what it does fascinate all armchair arc...