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Small wooden figurine of a woman with staff, shield and breastplate, seen in a tourist shop in Iceland.

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Small figurine with a horned helmet and beard, seen in a tourist shop in Iceland.

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Round armored figurines with axe and sword, seen in an Icelandic souvenir shop.

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Playful Viking warrior figurines with swords, shields and horned helmets. Seen in a souvenir shop in Iceland.

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The wikipedia page for Norse mythology in popular culture lists a wide variety of media that include elements of or are about Norse mythology.

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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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This statue of a troll stands outside the visitor centre at Geysir, and is a popular place for tourists to take photos. Trolls are a supernatural being (usually antagonist) featuring in Old Norse mythology, but since adopted and adapted in a variety…

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Several Newspapers reported on Great British Bake Off contestant Tom Gilliford, and his efforts to make a Thor's hammer and World-Serpent shaped breads for episode 3 of the 2016 series, including this article in the Telegraph

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An essay on how a group of students responded to a class on the history of the Vikings and how it affected their perception of the Vikings.

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Blog post about Ragnar's sons and The Netherlands; Sigurd, Ubbe, Ivar the Boneless, Bjorn Ironside, Hvitserk

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New cast announced: The grown-up versions of Ragnar's sons, Ubbe, Hvitserk, Ivar, Sigurd. Discussion of the new cast for Vikings

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Essay about mythology in The Profit and The Loss, Vikings season 4

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A discussion of how Floki in the Vikings tv series can be compared to Loki

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Discussion of Vikings season 4 'What might have been'
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