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In the ninth century A.D., this treasure might have bought half a cow.

Metal detectorist stumbles across Viking treasure hoard in Norway

By JoAnna Wendel published

Using a metal detector in a field, a Norwegian man stumbled upon a number of silver pieces dating back to the Viking Age.

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This sword has a preserved pommel (a knob at the end of the handle) with a "button" on top.

2 Viking swords buried upright might have connected the dead to Odin and Valhalla

By Laura Geggel published

Archaeologists in Sweden excavating a Viking grave field have uncovered two burials containing swords standing upright.

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Gif of a person holding the arrowhead found in Norway.

3-bladed arrowhead 'last touched by Vikings' revealed by melting ice patch

By Jennifer Nalewicki published

A rare, three-sided Viking arrowhead was discovered by glacial archaeologists in Norway.

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The ring is just visible here near the center of the jewelry bundle. Archaeologists have tracked the items to a man who said he'd bought them at an antique shop in Norway.

Gold Viking ring unexpectedly found in stash of 'cheap jewelry' from online auction

By Tom Metcalfe published

A woman in Norway discovered a large, gold Viking ring in a pile of cheap jewelry she bought in an online auction.

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A researcher examines the remains of a Viking Age sword discovered in Norway.

Broken pieces of rare Viking sword reunited after 1,200 years apart

By Joanna Thompson published

Two sleuths in Norway uncovered the pieces of an extremely rare type of sword from the Viking Age.

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This image shows where the boat burial and other burial mounds were found.

Viking boat burial discovered in Norway may hold the remains of royal figures

By Owen Jarus published

Archaeologists unexpectedly discovered a Viking boat burial deep underground in Norway.

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The lake sediments provide more information about what the climate in the East Settlement was like.

Drought helped push the Vikings out of Greenland, new study finds

By Owen Jarus published

Drought might have played a major role in the abandonment of the Eastern Settlement of Vikings around 1450, new research finds.

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A detail from a Viking-era picture stone in Gotland, Sweden, shows a ritual execution resembling a practice described in Nordic texts as the "blood eagle."

Vikings' 'blood eagle' torture was horrific — and may have actually happened

By Mindy Weisberger published

It literally turned victims inside out.

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The two Viksø helmets were found in pieces a bog in eastern Denmark in 1942. Archaeologists think they were deliberately deposited there as religious offerings.

Horned 'Viking' helmets were actually from a different civilization, archaeologists say

By Tom Metcalfe published

Two spectacular horned helmets may have inspired the myth that more than 1,500 years later, Vikings wore bulls' horns on their helmets.

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The newly-found longhouses were discovered by ground-penetrating radar, which can reveal buried objects and where the earth was disturbed in the past.

One of the largest-known Norse longhouses discovered near Viking ship burial

By Tom Metcalfe published

Archaeologists in Norway have discovered the remains of a cluster of Norse longhouses, including one of the largest of these structures ever found.

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