Category: vikings
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Viking Longship Unearthed in Norway After 1,200 Years Under Peat
On a flat area of farmland in Halden, southeastern Norway, a crane wrapped its straps around a block of earth the size of a dining table and carefully lifted it from a trench. Within that block, preserved in waterlogged clay, was a part of a Viking longship that had remained hidden from sunlight since the…