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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.
During the Viking Age, the area where Mästermyr mire is located used to be a lake. The mire was drained in 1902–10. [1] In October 1936, the chest was found by farmer Hugo Kraft in a field owned by Emil Norrby in Snoder, Sproge near Hemse. [2] It was found in an area that was ploughed for the first time. [3]
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 ...
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]
[2] [3] Overwintering in Iceland, Erik sets sail again intending to colonize Greenland. His expedition has 30 ships, but only 14 reach their destination. Erik founds a colony at Brattahlid in the Southwest of the island where he becomes a respected leader. Erik and Thjodhild have three sons, Leif, Thorvald, and Thorstein, and a daughter named ...
A collection of Etruscan artifacts, known as the Museo Corazzi, was bought for over 30.000 guilders but pleased Reuvens because Etruscan antiquities were virtually unknown outside Italy at the time. By far the most important deal of the expedition was the acquisition of the very large d'Anastasy Collection of Egyptian antiquities.
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"A Sketch of the History and Antiquities of the Southern Islands of Aran". Royal Irish Academy Transactions. 14: 1821–5. Gill, M. H. (1857). The Aran Isles: A Report. Dublin: Excursion of the Ethnological Section of the British Association from Dublin to the Western Islands of Aran. Haverty, Martin (1859). Ethnological Excursion to the Aran ...