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Wickie und die starken Männer (or Vicky the Viking) is German-Austrian-Japanese animated television series with the main character Wickie, a small Viking boy who uses his wits to help and outwit the starken Männer. This T-Shirt was photographed in…

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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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Viking branded cafe / restaurant in Nijmegen with a sketch of a horned helmet and mustache as its logo.

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Viking Juve is one of the more extreme groups of the Juventus Ultras (organised fans of Juventus Football Club in Turin). The group has been involved in hooliganism, and it may be a willingness to fight that led to them naming the group after the…

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Runic pins reading 'Orkney', on sale in a tourist shop in Kirkwall.

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Scapa Orkney Single Malt Whisky, 2001. A Viking ship is used in the branding of this product.

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Runic mugs with the inscription 'Orkney'. Seen in a tourist shop in Kirkwall.

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Description from http://www.sunfilm.is/playing-cards-nordic-gods.html

"Playing cards depicting the Norse pagan gods and characters from the myths as interpreted by Icelandic artist Nína Björk Bjarkadóttir. An explanatory booklet is included in…

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Free vector image based on the depiction of Sleipnir on the Tjängvide image stone (G 110)

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The logo for Bluetooth short-range wireless technology is a bind rune made up of the initials of Harald Bluetooth's name using the runes of the younger futhark: ᚼ (H) (Hagall) and ᛒ (B) (Bjarkan). This tenth-century King of Denmark famously…

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On sale in the Føroya Fornminnisavn (National Museum of the Faroe Islands)

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Photographed in a souvenir shop in Reykjavik. The source for this image of Sleipnir is probably the Tjängvide image stone.

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Many of the streets in this central area of Reykjavík are named after the Norse Gods. The first street to be named was Óðinsgata in the early twentieth century.

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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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Brewery in Denmark named Thor from 1873. This image was photographed on a beer crate.
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