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Giles Kristian was born in 1975, [9] in Leicestershire, England, to a Norwegian mother and an English father. [10] During the 1990s, he was selected from 8000 hopefuls [11] to become lead singer of the pop group Upside Down, achieving three top twenty hit records on the UK Singles Chart with the boy band, [12] performing at such venues as the Royal Albert Hall, N.E.C. and Wembley Arena.
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Vikings: Valhalla, or simply Valhalla, is a historical drama television series created by Jeb Stuart for Netflix that acts as a sequel to Vikings.The eight-episode first season premiered on February 25, 2022.
The Modern English noun Valhalla derives from Old Norse Valhǫll, a compound noun composed of two elements: the masculine noun valr 'the slain' and the feminine noun hǫll which originally referred to a rock, rocks, or mountain; not a hall, thus meaning Valhalla was originally understood as the "rock of the Slain" [3].
The rediscovery of the Viking past began in Norway during the 19th century when Norway saw a rise in nationalism. Having been in a personal union with Denmark under the Danish king for 400 years and subsequently in the union between Sweden and Norway under the Swedish king, Norwegians started looking back to their Viking Age kings and sagas.
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The ‘Viking Code’ leadership of Nicolai Tangen, a $1.7T wealth fund CEO unafraid to lock horns with Elon Musk Anders Indset Updated August 25, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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.