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2. Vikingen, Nordland - Wikipedia

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   Vikingen [1] is a small island in the southern part of Rødøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Vikingen is situated north of the village of Tonnes (in neighboring Lurøy Municipality ). The island is notable for having the Arctic Circle pass through it, something that is marked by a small statue with a globe.

3. Hedeby - Wikipedia

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   Hedeby (Danish pronunciation: [ˈhe̝ːðəˌpyˀ], Old Norse: Heiðabýr, German: Haithabu) was an important Danish Viking Age (8th to the 11th centuries) trading settlement near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

4. Viking Age in the Faroe Islands - Wikipedia

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   The Viking graves on the Faroe Islands deserve special attention, as they allow conclusions to be drawn about burial rites and the cult of the dead. The Vikings buried their dead above ground and aligned the bodies facing west-southwest - east-northeast , with the head pointing in that direction.

5. 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.

6. Naddodd - Wikipedia

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   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]

7. Norse settlements in Greenland - Wikipedia

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   1. From 700 to 750 people belonging to the Late Dorset Culture move into the area around Smith Sound, Ellesmere Island and Greenland north of Thule. 2. Norse settlement of Iceland starts in the second half of the 9th century. 3. Norse settlement of Greenland starts just before 1000. 4. Thule Inuit move into northern Greenland in the 12th ...