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Here's looking at you, kid: How the term for a young goat made the leap to children

Kid, meaning a young goat, is a word that was borrowed from the Vikings around the 9th century. Centuries later, it came to ...
Cambridge Independent

Severed heads and dismembered bodies uncovered in possible Viking-era ‘execution pit’ by University of Cambridge students on training dig

Astonishing find in Wandlebury Country Park includes one man over six foot with a hole trepanned in his skull.
The Daily Galaxy on MSN

The lost tomb of legendary Viking Ivar the Boneless may have finally been found on the English coast

A large earthwork on England’s northwest coast may hold the remains of Ivar the Boneless, a 9th-century Viking commander ...
Ancient Origins

Viking Age Mass Grave in UK Reveals “Giant” with Skull Surgery

The mass grave was uncovered during a University of Cambridge training excavation at Wandlebury, an Iron Age hillfort just south of the city. The burial pit itself measured roughly four meters by one ...