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		<title>How to Find out If You Have Viking Ancestry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2018 22:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Viking DNA]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Can we know if our ancestors were Vikings? The short answer is yes, we can. DNA testing may trace Viking background in our genetic makeup. However, Nordic ancestry cannot be proven or disproven in all cases. A few years ago, when I first got interested in genetic genealogy, I thought that there might be some [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Solar Eclipse in Norse Mythology</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2017 11:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Viking Gods]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Norse mythology Sun is a goddess named Sól. She rides a chariot created by gods to illuminate the nine worlds from the burning embers that come out of Muspelheim, the world of fire. Two horses named Early Awake and Very Quick draw the sun&#8217;s chariot. Giant wolf, of the species of monsters known as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Norse Runes Do Not Convey Whole Words</title>
		<link>https://www.vikingrune.com/2017/08/meaning-of-the-rune-thurs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2017 21:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For years, I have been receiving questions like ‘What is the rune for Joy?’ or ‘What is the rune for Happiness?’. The point is, Norse runes aren’t ideograms. Normally, they do not stand for abstract notions like ‘happiness’ or ‘joy’. Neither are they logograms, that is, they do not stand for all kinds of words [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Runic Inscription on the Staraya Ladoga Stick</title>
		<link>https://www.vikingrune.com/2016/03/runic-inscription-on-the-staraya-ladoga-stick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently I blogged about the Younger Futhark runes as a writing system, emphasizing insufficiency of only 16 runic symbols for 21 consonants and 38 vowels of the Old Norse language between the 9th and 12th centuries. The 16 runes of the Younger Futhark are about three times less than one would expect. Anglo-Saxons invented additional [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Everyone’s Someone at Home</title>
		<link>https://www.vikingrune.com/2016/03/everyone-someone-at-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2016 15:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[About two years ago I received a request to write with runes a quote in Old Norse. This happens time and again since people find difficulty in substituting letters of the standard Old Norse orthography for the Younger Futhark runes. The request was for a 6 line stanza from Hávamál (Sayings of the High One): [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Can I Write in Old Norse With Runes?</title>
		<link>https://www.vikingrune.com/2016/03/can-i-write-in-old-norse-with-runes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2016 00:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Norse Runes]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[People tend to believe that there is nothing more easy and natural than to write in Old Norse with runes. In reality it’s quite the opposite. The language that we know as Old Norse is the language of the sagas of Icelanders, which were written down in the 13th century. Strictly speaking, this language is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Younger Futhark Runes: Were They Convenient?</title>
		<link>https://www.vikingrune.com/2016/03/younger-futhark-runes-were-they-convenient/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What did it feel like for Vikings to have the Younger Futhark as an alphabet in the Viking Age? Imagine you have your standard English alphabet. Then you have a reform based on the fact that the writing system is exceedingly complex and the letters are too many. Let us cut down their number, they [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Do Vikings Awake in Us?</title>
		<link>https://www.vikingrune.com/2016/02/what-do-vikings-awake-in-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Vikings]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 4th season of The History Channel’s Vikings started a few days ago. The TV series grew so popular that this year it will have twice as many episodes as in the previous seasons, with additional ten in fall, after a summer break. Many things in the Viking Age epic by Michael Hirst stir up [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ulfberht Viking Sword from Novgorod</title>
		<link>https://www.vikingrune.com/2015/02/ulfberht-viking-sword-novgorod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Vikings]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Viking swords are sometimes called Carolingian swords or Carolingian type swords. It is believed that they developed from Vendel type swords, which, in their turn, emerged under the influence of Spatha, a Celtic sword adopted by Roman cavalry along with the Celtic cavalrymen. A universally accepted Viking sword typology was created by Jan Petersen in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Swedish Names: Top 100 Names Popular in Sweden</title>
		<link>https://www.vikingrune.com/2015/02/swedish-names/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2015 16:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Norse Names]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The list of top 100 popular Swedish names includes names that have been the most widespread during the last 100 years in Sweden. Some of them were popular once and then enjoyed less spreading. Others remain popular until today. The list is divided into top 50 male and top 50 female Swedish names. ON stands [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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