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1,000-year-old German dinner reveals long-distance Viking trade routes Freeze-dried cod proves the Icelandic Sagas were sometimes historically accurate.
Greer Jarrett of Lund University and his team have sailed over 5,000 kilometers along Viking trade routes using an open, square-rigged boat that is similar to what people probably used during the ...
Jarrett and his team sailed a replica of a Viking Age open, square-rigged clinker boat, covering over 5,000 kilometers along traditional Viking trade routes, including a journey from Trondheim up ...
Since then, Greer Jarrett and his team have sailed over 5,000 kilometres along Viking trade routes (see map). His research shows that the likely routes of the Vikings took them farther from land ...
A Swedish archaeologist has sailed a replica Viking boat for 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers), which helped him to identify what he says are four previously unknown harbors along the coast of Norway ...
Archaeologists from an international research team, led by academics at Lund University, Sweden, have uncovered Viking-era trade deals with the Indigenous People of the Arctic. The team set out to ...
The findings show the pass was used from about A.D. 300 to 1500, with a peak of activity during the Viking Age in the year 1000 that reflected its importance during a period of long-range trade ...
The Volga Trade Route. Clip: Season 40 Episode 6 | 2m 58s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The Vikings may have trekked all the way to Iran in search of crucible steel. Aired 02/07/2013 | Rating NR ...
The Viking age, spanning the 8th to 11th centuries AD, saw Norsemen journey from Scandinavia aboard timber longships to stage raids, trade and settle across a wide region, including North America ...
Ice patches that melted from the slopes of a remote mountain pass in Norway have revealed artifacts that provide new insight into the livelihood of hunters, traders and travelers along a route thou… ...