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It’s a Viking Thing

  • March 18, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Taken from the Old Norse word “þing” (“assembly”), a “Thing” was a meeting place where Vikings made key legal and political decisions. Thing sites have been found from Norway to Iceland to the Isle of Man … and one turned up recently under a parking lot in Dingwall, Scotland!

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