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The Vikings

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The Last Viking

In 870 a man named Naddogt sets off to the pharaohs. After days of shivering in the bitter cold and high seas, he lands on an undiscovered new island. With no indigenous people to contend with, the Icelandic settlements are purely Viking in influence. The building of a new community means that these Vikings include as many women as men. They will later say it's so hospitable that butter drips from blades of grass.

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