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2. Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County - Wikipedia

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   The Hjemkomst Viking Ship stands as a replica of the Gokstad burial ship. Local resident Robert Asp conceived the idea to build and sail a Viking ship to Norway. The ship's journey serves as the subject of an award-winning documentary. [3] Construction of the Hjemkomst began in 1974 and spanned several years.

3. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Wikipedia

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   A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland at Project Gutenberg. Plain text and HTML versions. Donald MacNicol. Remarks on Dr. Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides; in which are contained observations on the antiquities, language, genius, and manners of the Highlanders of Scotland. London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1779. From Internet Archive.

4. Viking (cruise line) - Wikipedia

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   The company was established by Torstein Hagen in St. Petersburg, Russia as Viking River Cruises in 1997. Hagen had become involved in cruising as a McKinsey and Company consultant who helped the Holland America Line survive the 1973 oil crisis, then was CEO of the Royal Viking Line from 1980 to 1984, made money in the Russian private equity markets, then bought a controlling stake in a Dutch ...

5. Viking activity in the British Isles - Wikipedia

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   The Viking king of Northumbria, Halfdan Ragnarrson (Old English: Healfdene)—one of the leaders of the Viking Great Army (known to the Anglo-Saxons as the Great Heathen Army)—surrendered his lands to a second wave of Viking invaders in 876. In the next four years, Vikings gained further land in the kingdoms of Mercia and East Anglia as well ...

6. Viking expansion - Wikipedia

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   Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.

7. Naddodd - Wikipedia

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   Route of the Vikings Faroe Postal Service, 15 March 1982. Naddodd (Old Norse: Naddoðr [ˈnɑdːoðr] or Naddaðr [ˈnɑdːɑðr]; Icelandic: Naddoður [ˈnatːɔːðʏr̥]; Faroese: Naddoddur; fl. c. 9th century) was a Norse Viking who is credited with the discovery of Iceland. [1]