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	<title>The Viking Rune: Norse Vikings and All Things Scandinavian</title>
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		<title>Mel Gibson to Direct a Viking Movie Starring Leonardo DiCaprio</title>
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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 How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Odin from Lejre</title>
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Last Saturday, November 14, Roskilde Museum site published an article (in Danish), entitled &#8220;Odin fra Lejre&#8221; (&#8220;Odin from Lejre&#8221;). It tells about an exciting archaeological find, a small silver figurine discovered early in September at Lejre (municipality on the island of Zealand, Denmark). Amateur archaeologist Tommy Olesen was metal detecting near the site where archaeologists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viking Ship from Gokstad</title>
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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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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 Ship from Oseberg</title>
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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>Odin as Weapon Dancer</title>
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To the left is the mirrored image of one of the four cast-bronze dies from Torslunda, which were used for striking helmet-plates. It is mirrored advisedly, in order to get the actual  image that appeared on the helmets when the matrice was applied to them. This die (dated to c. 600) was found at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viking Words in English</title>
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How many loanwords from Old Nose are there in the standard English language? Viking origin of the words &#8216;ransack&#8217; and &#8217;slaughter&#8217; probably would not surprise anyone, but very &#8220;peaceful&#8221; words like &#8216;leg&#8217;, &#8217;sky&#8217; or &#8216;window&#8217; are also of Scandinavian provenance. The verb &#8216;get&#8217;, one of the most used in English, was actually borrowed from Old [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/10/viking-words-in-english/</link>
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		<title>The 13th Warrior: Ten Years Later</title>
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The 13th Warrior was released in 1999. Rumored to be a loss of $100 million at the box office worldwide, it is not the best film by McTiernan (Die Hard, The Thomas Crown Affair) in any sense. However, it was rather entertaining to watch it again, taking a few notes in the process. From the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/09/the-13th-warrior/</link>
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		<title>Marriage Imperative of the Viking Age</title>
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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, when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/09/marriage-viking-age/</link>
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		<title>Viking Food: Scandinavian Cuisine</title>
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Climate, lifestyle and isolation: these three factors largely shaped Scandinavian cuisine. Lengthy, dark and cold winter has always been and still is one of the basic facts of life in the Nordic countries that have to be dealt with seriously. Surviving through the winter depended on food supplies stored during the short growing season. Lack [...]]]></description>
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