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Vikings exhibit hangs up the sword, and gives us a welcome insight into domestic life

  • Written by Tom Clark, Associate Professor, First Year College, Victoria University
Vikings exhibit hangs up the sword, and gives us a welcome insight into domestic lifeA reconstructed Viking ship. Caitlin Mills

The Vikings are in Melbourne. It is hard to see anything “Vikings” without thoughts of the seafaring thugs who invaded or raided much of coastal Europe and beyond. As Viking scholar Judith Jesch has reminded us, that is essential to what the word originally meant: Norse-speaking people who got...



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