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Viking Denmark: following the footsteps of ancient explorers

Were Vikings mead-swilling and pillaging hooligans, or civilising craftspeople, poets and merchants? Your preconceptions around Vikings will likely be challenged in Denmark, where a series of burial sites, rune stones, settlements and museums brings this age to life. The Vikings' gods and beliefs, their stupendous feats of navigation, their customs, their longships, their intricate jewellery, carvings and sagas - it's all here. Just forget the horned helmets - they didn't wear them.