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Podcast: Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast
Episode: Gone Viking with Bill Arnott
Description: Notorious for their seafaring ways and conquering territories far and wide, the Vikings burst onto the world scene around 800 AD. For hundreds of years, they raided, conquered, settled, and farmed in lands across Europe, Russia, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and across the North Atlantic to Iceland, Greenland, and then to what they called “Vinland,” our present-day Newfoundland. They did all this in longboats, effectively 60-foot open row boats with sails and virtually no navigation tools. Whatever their legacy of terror (our guest today has some thoughts on that), they were remarkable explorers who left...