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  1. Tunn11

    Viking Longships

    Couldn't find this on a search and I don't know whether it has been brought up before but what were the Viking longship "figureheads" designed to look like? ignoring mast/sails there is a long neck, small head and a lower tail. Rather than dragons could they have been based on a typical "long...
  2. OneWingedBird

    Viking-Era Discoveries & Theories

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6338535.stm
  3. MrRING

    Viking Berserkers: What Did They Drink?

    Going on the assumption that the phenomenon of Berserkers in Viking raiding parties were real - what potion did they drink to make them "impervious" to pain? A hallucinagen of some kind? A numbing drink? Is there any archeological or socialogical evidence in existance as to what they were?
  4. A

    The Vinland Map

    Map of Vinland carbon dated The article is available online at http://www.radiocarbon.org.
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