✅🎯🙄Just finished #Vikings season 1 and i just had to go for a Viking Kebab pizza.
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Whom Did the Vikings Find When They Reached the Faroe Islands?
https://buymeacoffee.com/newscafe/whom-did-vikings-find-when-they-reached-faroe-islands
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In Norse mythology, neither of the sea gods were of the Æsir (the main pantheon). Njord was one of the Vaneir, and embodied the sea's helpful aspects (sailing, fishing, etc.). Ægir was one of the Jotnar, and embodied the sea's dangerous aspects (storms, tsunamis, etc.).
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In Norse mythology, the mountain giantess Skadi married the sea god Njord, as he had lovely legs. But Skadi found that she hated the beach since she couldn't ski and gulls squawked all day, and Njord hated the cold mountains since he couldn't swim and wolves howled all night.
🎨 Laura Daligan
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1,000-year-old Viking textile production center uncovered near Aarhus in Denmark
Archaeologists in Denmark have uncovered a large Viking Age production site that supplied textiles and other goods to one of the region’s main trade centers over 1,000 years ago. The site sits near Søften in eastern Jutland, about 10 kilometers north of modern Aarhus...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/viking-textile-production-center-near-aarhus/
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I know this is very bad and scary when others do it, but I sometimes think that people convicted of violent crimes in #Sweden, who flee the country, should live in constant fear of the #vikings with horned helmets and iron hatchets we as a nation would send out as bounty hunters after them.
The viking should get a bounty corresponding to the #weregild the criminal owed, and be allowed to share it with the victims, or not.
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