Jewellery from the grave of the Frafjord woman, a high status Viking woman was delivered at museum’s door, at Stavanger
Archaeologists located a unique Viking Age shipyard site at Birka on Björkö in Lake Mälaren: “A site like this has never been found before”
Columbus was not the first European to reach the Americas, the Vikings got there centuries before, being already active in 1021 AD
The Rök runestone, erected in Östergötland around 800 CE, is the world’s most famous runestone from the Viking Age, but has also proven to be one of the most difficult to interpret