Tag: Vikings
Magnificent earring: How a piece of jewelry found its way from Byzantium to the Vikings
Find on Gotland Magnificent earring – why a piece of jewelery from the emperor adorned the neck of a beautiful Viking woman The earring survived almost unscathed, only the enamel…
Vikings in North America: Arrival 471 years before Columbus – Knowledge
The discovery of America has a new date: the year 1021. It was not Christopher Columbus who was the first to cross the Atlantic, but the Vikings. With their fast…
Science: Wood and solar storm provide evidence of Vikings in America
science Wood and solar storm provide evidence of Vikings in America Microscopic image of a fragment of wood from the Nordic strata in L’Anse aux Meadows. Exactly a thousand years…