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News item: Iceland goose hunt turns up 1,000-year-old sword

An article on the BBC News website about the chance discovery of a Viking Age sword in Iceland.

News Item: Soldiers of Odin, dubbed 'extreme anti-refugee group,' patrol Edmonton streets

This is a news article from the CBC website about the activities of an extreme anti-refugee group dubbed the 'soldiers of Odin'. Their logo is a…

Article about 'Understanding the Heysham Hogback' by Thor Ewing

Online article hosted on the website of writer and historian Thor Ewing giving his take on the tenth-century hogback from Heysham in Lancashire.…

Viking-Age 'Birka Crucifix' in the Swedish History Museum

A silver crucifix from Björkö in Sweden discovered in the late nineteenth century and housed in The Swedish History Museum (Historiska).…

Newspaper article about a Viking-Age crucifix find in Denmark

Article in the Independent newspaper discussing the find of a tenth-century crucifix in Denmark (the Aunslev Cross) which is very similar to one found…

Report on the Pre-Christian Religions of the North Project

A report by Dr Leszek Gardeła on an ongoing international collaborative project, 'The Pre-Christian Religions of the North Project and its…