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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>MGM Vikings Series</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After emerging from bankruptcy last year, MGM is going to produce a new TV series on Vikings. The project’s executive producers are Michael Hirst and Morgan O’Sullivan. This team has already proved to be successful in both Camelot and The Tudors. Producers/managers Sherry Marsh and Alan Gasmer also take part in the project. MGM Vikings [...]]]></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>Mel Gibson to Direct a Viking Movie Starring Leonardo DiCaprio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Monday Variety reported that Mel Gibson is going to direct a Viking movie with Leonardo DiCaprio set to star. The screenplay is by William Monahan. The project will be financed by Mel Gibson and Graham King. The Viking film is expected to begin shooting in fall 2010. Before it happens, Gibson will star in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage Imperative of the Viking Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In September 2008 Dr James H. Barrett, who is deputy director of Cambridge University&#8217;s McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, published a paper that provoked lively discussion. The paper was entitled &#8220;What caused the Viking Age?&#8221;. It was published in Antiquity v.82 n.317, pages 671-685 (available for subscribers here). The Viking Age began dramatically in 793, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Viking Hoaxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 18:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Vinland Map. The so called Vinland Map is a medieval style map of the old world. It is said to date to the 15th century, when it was purportedly redrawn from a 13th century original. In the western Atlantic it has a large island identified as Vinland, which is the name given to an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viking Graffiti in Hagia Sophia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tagma ton Varangion, the Varangian Guard, was first created in the Byzantine Empire under Basil II Bulgaroctonus (Slayer of the Bulgars), one of the outstanding Byzantine emperors. After the death of John I Tzimisces in 976, who governed the empire before Basil, two powerful generals revolted and received military support from Georgia and Baghdad. Basil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jelling Rune Stones Remain Outdoors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jelling stones are two massive runestones standing in a churchyard in Jelling, Denmark, between two large mounds. Both date to the 10th century. The older and the smaller of the two was erected by Gorm the Old in memory of his wife Thyra. The Larger stone was erected by Harald Bluetooth in memory of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vikings Filed Their Teeth</title>
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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>The Vikings Reloaded</title>
		<link>http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/03/vikings-cambridge-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the third and the last day of the conference Between the Islands: Interaction with Vikings in Ireland and Britain in the Early Medieval Period hosted by the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic of the Cambridge University. &#8220;The rehabilitation of the Vikings is nothing new to academics, but it is surprising how enduring [...]]]></description>
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