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• ...that Ardre image stones were used as paving under the wooden floors of a local church in the Ardre parish of Gotland? --26 November 2004
• ...that, according to Ahmed ibn Fadlan, the supreme ruler of the Rus' Khaganate "had no duties other than to make love to his slave girls, drink, and give himself up to pleasure"? --19 October 2006
• ... that the Rus merchants travelling along the Volga trade route (pictured) brought goods from Northern Europe and Northwestern Russia as far as Baghdad? --27 October 2006
• ...that the Siege of Constantinople by the Rus in 860 is known primarily from the writings of Patriarch Photius, who referred to the invaders as "a swarm of wasps" and compared their attack to "a thunderbolt from heaven"? --31 October 2006
• ...that Öpir, the "shouter", was the most productive of the old Viking runemasters? --18 January 2007
• ...that Bolli Bollasson, a character in the Medieval Icelandic Laxdœla saga, is credited as the first West Norse member of the Varangian Guard (pictured)? --29 January 2007
• ...that the Piraeus Lion is an ancient Greek statue "embellished" with runic graffiti by Varangians? --2 February 2007
• ...that Kveldulf Bjalfasson, a ninth-century Norwegian landowner and grandson of the Viking Egill Skallagrímsson, was reputed to be an ulfhéðinn or werewolf? --27 April 2007
• ...that Gunnhild, "Mother-of-Kings", the wife and queen of Erik Bloodaxe of Norway, was rumored to be a witch? --12 July 2007
• ...that the Simris Runestones (pictured) include one of the earliest Scandinavian sources that mention Sweden? --19 February 2008

• ...that "quickfire", a form of arson employed in Scandinavian blood feuds, was punishable by death only if the perpetrator was caught in the act and killed at the scene of the crime? --19 February 2008
• ... that the Uppland runestone U 328 (pictured) is an example of the Ringerike style?" --15 May 2008
• ... that the Skaga stave church was built in the 1130s to Christianise the area, but was demolished in 1826 as a stronghold of remaining Norse paganism? --8 August 2008
• ... that enemies of Viking chieftain Tryggve the Pretender claimed he was the bastard son of a priest? --15 August 2008

• ... that the Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin, Sigtrygg Silkbeard, established Ireland's first mint (coin of Sigtrygg pictured) in the 990s at Dublin? --17 March 2009
• ... that Brodir and Ospak of Man were two 11th-century Danish brothers who fought on opposite sides at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014? --17 March 2009
• ... that in 1029, the ransom of the Hiberno-Norse prince Amlaíb mac Sitriuc included over 1,200 cows, 60 ounces of gold and of silver, "the sword of Carlus", and a large number of Irish hostages? --23 March 2009
• ... that after the Battle of Glenmama in the Wicklow Mountains in 999, Brian Boru's Munster forces occupied the city of Dublin for over a week? --24 March 2009
• ... that the Fyrby Runestone claims two brothers were the most skilled in runes in Middle Earth? --1 March 2010
• ... that the Lund 1 Runestone depicts two wolves that have a sword and shield strapped to their bodies?" --5 May 2010
• ... that an invocation to the Norse god Thor is hidden on the Sønder Kirkeby Runestone using bind runes located in the waves under a ship image? --31 July 2010
• ... that on Swedish runestone Sö Fv1948;295, the R rune is represented by the shape of the tongue of a serpent? --16 September 2010
• ... that the Swedish runestone Östergötland Runic Inscription MÖLM1960;230 is one of four runestones that mention guilds that existed in Sweden during the Viking Age?

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More information Norse history and culture articles by quality and importance, Quality ...

Norse history and culture articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Other	???	Total
FA		5	3	6				14
FL				1				1
GA	7	39	39	35		2		122
B	31	80	98	85		2	10	306
C	26	107	150	146	1	10	55	495
Start	19	153	413	640	2	7	118	1,352
Stub	1	38	206	437	4	4	60	750
List	1	13	7	27		1	4	53
NA				12				12
Other	1	19	14		449		13	496
Assessed	86	454	930	1,389	456	26	260	3,601
Total	86	454	930	1,389	456	26	260	3,601
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 14,069			Ω = 4.73

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