What You Know About Vikings Is Wrong

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Vikings colonized North America years ago, but what do we really know about them?

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Viking Women Colonized New Lands, Too
http://news.discovery.com/history/vik...
“Vikings may have been family men who traveled with their wives to new lands, according to a new study of ancient Viking DNA.”

Viking families traveled together, research shows
http://phys.org/news/2014-12-viking-f...
“A new study shows that when Vikings moved to new territories, men and women traveled together.”

New Research Shows That Vikings Were Cultured
http://www.newhistorian.com/new-resea...
“Recent research has shown that Viking settlers in Iceland had a complex and sophisticated social hierarchy.”

Vikings
http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/1137.html
“According to the sagas, at precisely A.D. 1000, Leif Eriksson, first son of the notorious Erik the Red, voyaged from Greenland for lands sighted to the west.”

The Vikings: A Memorable Visit to America
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history...
“Roughly 1,000 years ago, the story goes, a Viking trader and adventurer named Thorfinn Karlsefni set off from the west coast of Greenland with three ships and a band of Norse to explore a newly discovered land that promised fabulous riches.”

Major Viking Hall Identified in Sweden
http://www.su.se/english/research/lea...
“A Viking feasting hall measuring almost 50 metres in length has been identified near Vadstena in Sweden.”

Why We’re So Fascinated by the Vikings
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/0...
“The finger of fashion is pointing once again at Scandinavia.”

Were the Vikings really so bloodthirsty?
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-2643...
“The Viking story has fascinated people for centuries. But as a major exhibition opens at the British Museum, have people got them all wrong?”

What Vikings really looked like
http://sciencenordic.com/what-vikings...
“There’s no shortage of myths about the appearance of our notorious Viking ancestors.”

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