Hacker News with Generative AI: Vikings

Archaeologist sailing like a Viking makes unexpected discoveries (phys.org)
Archaeologist Greer Jarrett at Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for three years. He can now show that the Vikings sailed farther away from Scandinavia and took routes farther from land than was previously believed to have been possible. In his latest study, he has found evidence of a decentralized network of ports, located on islands and peninsulas, which probably played a central role in trade and travel in the Viking era.
A runic inscription on Viking-age treasure find has been deciphered (theguardian.com)
When the Galloway hoard was discovered in a ploughed field in western Scotland in 2014, it proved to be the richest collection of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland. Now the long-standing mystery of who might have owned it when it was buried more than 1,000 years ago may have been solved.
Vikings Settled in North America in 1021AD (bbc.com)
Vikings had a settlement in North America exactly one thousand years ago, centuries before Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, a study says.
'Amazing' Viking-age treasure travelled half the world to Scotland (theguardian.com)
Vikings in al-Andalus and the Maghreb (alandalusylahistoria.com)