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		<title>Ardnamurchan Viking Ship Burial</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stunning archaeological find was made last month in Scotland. A Viking ship burial, which is about 1,000 years old was unearthed on the Ardnamurchan peninsula. It was the grave of a chieftain buried in a rather small vessel (about 16ft) as compared to famous Gokstad or Oseberg ship burials in Norway or Sutton Hoo grave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Brice’s Day Massacre at Oxford</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St. Brice’s Day Massacre is an event recorded in an ancient chart, which says that in AD 1002 the Saxon king Ethelred the Unready was told that there was a Danish plot to assassinate him. After that he ordered to kill all the Vikings in England. The same chart reports that in Oxford the Danes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beheaded Vikings in Weymouth Execution Pit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June 2009 a thousand-year-old execution pit was discovered at Ridgeway Hill, on a hilltop by the ancient main road from Dorchester to Weymouth. The pit contained the remains of 51 robust young warriors, most of whom were in their late teens to early 20s. Since no pins or toggles were found, it is suggested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viking Longboat from Gokstad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gokstad ship is a Viking ship excavated in 1880 not far from Sandefjord (Vestfold, Norway) by Nicolay Nicolaysen. The ship was buried in a trench. On board, it had a burial chamber of a wealthy chieftain. Above a large mound was raised. Along with the 24 meters long ship, its oars, pulleys, yards and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remains in the Oseberg Ship Burial</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oseberg ship was buried in a trench dug into blue clay that preserved the oak almost intact for more than a millennium. The trench was filled with rocks and layers of peat, grass-side down. The Viking ship was tied to a rock, with its bow pointing towards the sea. It had an anchor, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viking Longboat from Oseberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oseberg ship is perhaps the most exciting Viking ship ever found. August 8, 1903 Norwegian farmer named Knut Rom visited Professor Gabriel Gustafson of the University Museum of Antiquities in Oslo. There was a large mound within Rom&#8217;s farm Lille Oseberg located in Vestfold county, on the western coast of the Oslofjord, near Tønsberg. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vikings Filed Their Teeth</title>
		<link>http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/03/vikings-filed-their-teeth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caroline Arcini, an anthropologist at the National Heritage Board in Lund, Sweden, analized 557 skeletons from four major Viking burial sites in Sweden. The skeletons date from AD 800 to AD 1050. The results of the study, published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology in 2006, revealed that 24 of them (10 per cent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viking Burial Site in Cumwhitton, Cumbria</title>
		<link>http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/02/viking-burial-site-cumwhitton-cumbria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In March 2004 amateur archeologist Peter Adams found two Viking copper brooches on a farmland in Cumwhitton, near Carlisle, Cumbria, using a metal detector with permisson from the landowner. Mr Adams immediately reported this important find under the Portable Antiquities Scheme. This led to the discovery of six Viking graves, dating from the early 10th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Danish Viking DNA Retrieved</title>
		<link>http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/01/danish-viking-dna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May 2008 a team of Danish scientists led by Jørgen Dissing from the University of Copenhagen was able to retrieve the genetic material from the Viking burial site called Galdegil. It is located near Otterup on the island of Funen, Denmark. The remains of 3 males, 4 females and 3 more persons whose sex [...]]]></description>
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