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  • The Viking Ship Museum Roskilde, Denmark

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    I have previously been to The Viking Ship museum in Oslo, Norway so to learn that less than an hour away from Copenhagen there was a museum with 5 Viking ships I was pretty excited to say the least. I hopped a train and headed off. It’s about a mile walk to the museum from…

  • Stockholm History Museum

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    Stockholm’s history museum is free and open to the public. I specifically went to check out their section on Viking history. For not having a separate Viking museum at my time of visit (expected to open 04/29/2017) their Viking collection was pretty extensive. I enjoyed getting lost in there for a couple of hours looking…

  • Viking World – Iceland

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    Viking World is about 40 minutes outside of Reykjavik somewhat in the direction of Keflavik Airport. There on display you can find the Íslendingur, which is a replica of the Gokstad Viking ship. (While the Gokstad Viking ship is on display itself in Oslo, Norway.) The Íslendingur sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland in 2000 to…