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  1. ramonmercado

    1,000 Years Ago, Baltic Pagans Imported Horses From Scandinavia To Behead Them Or Bury Them Alive

    A sign of prosperity if they could import such horses for sacrifice, 1,000 years ago, Baltic pagans imported horses from Scandinavia to behead them or bury them alive By Kristina Killgrove published 3 days ago Baltic pagans imported horses to be sacrificed from their Christian neighbors around...
  2. 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...
  3. OneWingedBird

    Viking-Era Discoveries & Theories

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6338535.stm
  4. 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?
  5. A

    Clippings From Sweden & Swedish Forteana

    STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Reuters) -- Sweden's Lund University, one of the oldest seats of learning in Scandinavia, will take a leap into the unknown by appointing northern Europe's first professor of parapsychology, hypnology and clairvoyance. Almost 30 candidates, including a self-professed...
  6. A

    The Vinland Map

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