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  • Top 10 Misconceptions About The Vikings - Listverse

    Interesting facts (?) about vikings. They visited many times Finland - so, some of us can be their descendants. From the page: When most of us think of vikings, we see horn-helmeted violent blond men raping and pillaging everything in sight. But, in fact, many of these images are... more

    Reviewed by Vellamo Apr 22 2009, 12:14pm ( 37 reviews ) listverse.com

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  • Rated by RobinEdgar on Aug 20, 11:57pm

    10 Misconceptions about Vikings. I knew some of these from past and recent reading but not all of them. Some may be a bit politically correct though. . .
  • Rated by BillinSDCA on Apr 30 2009, 9:37am

    Nothing like a little historical education.
  • Rated by onreact-com on Apr 29 2009, 8:58am

    Yeah, I knew that the horns are cliche.
  • Rated by Sarchana on Apr 29 2009, 6:46am

    By Assuming --- we make an ass of u n me...
  • Reviewed by naturmamma on Apr 28 2009, 9:29am

    From the page: The Vikings did originate from the Scandinavian countries, but over time they started settlements in many places, reaching as far as North Africa, Russia, Constantinople, and even North America. ------- In the Saga of Orkney Island there is a comment that vikings had come even from Finland - Sweden - Norway to the islands of Orkney north from Scotland.
  • Rated by rhcpjulle on Apr 28 2009, 8:26am

    thankfully we are taught this in school in Scandinavia. I don't get why Americans celebrate columbus day when he in fact did not discover America. I liked the info on lørdag being washing day 'cause it was the only one I did not know