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    The Jorvik Viking Centre is a museum and visitor attraction in York, England, containing lifelike mannequins and life-size dioramas depicting Viking life...
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    Scandinavian York (redirect from Jorvik)
    Scandinavian York or Viking York (Old Norse: Jórvík) is a term used by historians for what is now Yorkshire during the period of Scandinavian domination...
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    recovered by the York Archaeological Trust while excavating the Viking settlement of Jórvík (present-day York) in northern England. The coprolite was found...
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    a "Viking Calendar". No such calendar is known to have existed, and the source was a "prediction" made to media outlets by the Jorvik Viking Centre in...
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  • better as Sigismund Dijkstra. Despite suggestions to the contrary, Jorvik Viking Centre (York) staff have confirmed that it is not Sean Bean who completes...
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  • Battle of York (867) (category Battles involving the Vikings)
    their victory the Vikings would initially set up a puppet king named Ecgberht, before later creating the Kingdom of Jórvík centred on York. Known as Eoferwic...
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    colonies. The Vikings founded several kingdoms and earldoms in Europe: the Kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar), Orkney (Norðreyjar), York (Jórvík) and the Danelaw...
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    500m 550yds YAT City Walls Experience Monk Bar DIG Barley Hall Jorvik Viking Centre    The York Archaeological Trust for Excavation and Research Limited...
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    as Jorvik Viking Centre in the United Kingdom, Sagnlandet Lejre and Ribe Viking Center [da] in Denmark, Foteviken Museum in Sweden or Lofotr Viking Museum...
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    Knowledge about military technology of the Viking Age (late 8th to mid-11th century Europe) is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial...
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