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Restaurant opened in 1958, billed as a 'Viking-Style' buffet. Rooms inside are named after the gods, including 'Odin Hall', and the logo is a dragon. The restaurant serves international and Viking food.

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Pottery beer stein, featuring a group of Viking warriors with the inscription 'Icelandic Vikings'. Seen in a souvenir shop in Iceland.

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A doll with wild beard and horned helmet - the two most instantly recognisable signifiers of the vikings in the tourist industry. Produced by Memories of Denmark.

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Pottery drinking horn souvenir featuring a bearded Viking with a horned helmet and the label 'Iceland'.

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Glass flagon featuring a cartoon Viking warrior with horned helmet and drinking from a horn. The labels read 'skal' (cheers) and 'Iceland'. Found in a souvenir shop, Iceland.

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Souvenir Handmade Icelandic Magic Runes: Viking Runic Script. Various necklaces and jewelry featuring runes, Thor's hammers and replica animal bones. Found in a souvenir shop in Iceland.

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A souvenir mug from Copenhagen airport featuring a boy with Viking attire and horned helmet. Produced by Memories of Denmark.

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A souvenir mug from Copenhagen airport featuring a girl with stylised Viking attire, axe and horned helmet. Produced by Memories of Denmark.

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One of several runic necklaces in the 'Runestones - Ancient Stones of Prophecy' series from Sólarfilma, which assumes that the runes were regularly used in divination.

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Fridge magnets with a dragon-prowed Viking ship, brightly coloured shields and warriors with horned helmets. Found in a souvenir shop in Iceland.

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Fridge magnets featuring a Viking warrior with sword, beard and horned helmet, and a shield with the label 'Iceland'. Seen in a souvenir shop in Iceland.

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Photo of the Sun Voyager, a sculpture by Jón Gunnar Árnason, and unveiled in 1990 near Sæbraut in Reykjavík, Iceland. Though many people assume it to represent a Viking Ship and refer to Norse heritage, the artist's…

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Trolls with horned helmets and either a shield with Swedish flag or flag. Seen in Copenhagen airport.

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This stone tower in Touro Park on Rhode Island has been thought to be a Viking construction. This is not the case, and the arguments for it have been shown to be wrong in every regard. The earliest references to it describe it as a stone windmill,…

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Album released in 2015 by Jamaican reggae dancehall recording artist Vybz Kartel, entitled Viking (Vybz Is King). The album artwork features Vybz with horned helmet and sword. The artist was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014 for murder.

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The rousing chant used by Icelandic football fans has been widely commented on in the media following their success against England. The chant is most often referred to as a Viking war cry, but in fact it has nothing to do with the Vikings and is…

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A colourful figurine (including horned helmet) outside a shop in Heimaey in the Westman Islands

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Artwork by Youghal artist John O'Mahony, featuring a Viking with beard and horned helmet. Youghal was founded as a temporary settlement by the Vikings, but there is little tangible reminder of this Viking heritage.

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An interactive Viking-themed tour in Dublin. Photographed in Dublin, August 2016.The amphibious vehicles are named after Norse gods.As described on the Viking Splashwebsite: "Let the Vikings show you the sites and scenes of the capital city from a…

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"Vikingen" - Isländsk man i vikingadräkt vid Ármannsfell, Þingvellir, Island
("The Viking" - Icelandic man in Viking costume at Ármann Fell, Thingvellir , Iceland.)

Note the lack of horns on the helmet, but outlandish spear and belt buckle.
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