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A group for the discussion of all aspects of the culture of the Vikings - their wars, voyages, art, literature, language and legacy. Hugrunar means 'Thought Runes' and encompasses discussion of the Viking Age from the Fifth to the Eleventh Centuries.

Fair Fame of Years - History of the Vikings (6 threads, 237 posts)
    Beyond the World's Edge: Viking Iceland, Greenland and America (30 posts)
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    The Vikings' martime technology carried them to settle in the Shetlands, Orkneys, Iceland, Greenland and then on to North America. ...
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    Viking-era cabin discovered in Iceland's West Fjords
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    Author: * Svava Sigurdsson - 3 Posts on this thread out of 25 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Sep 30, 2007 - 07:14

    An archeological expedition on the island Hrútey in Mjóifjördur fjord in Ísafjardardjúp, the West Fjords, have revealed the ruins of a cabin which may have been built during the Viking Era.

    According to Ragnar Edvardsson, an archeologist at the West Fjords’ Natural Science Center, diggings had revealed an oval building structure with a double layer of rocks and turf in between that can at least be traced back to the Middle Ages.

    The full article is here in the Iceland Review


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