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🐴 Les chevaux islandais : un héritage des Vikings 🛡️🐎
Parmi les races les plus pures et anciennes au monde, ces chevaux ont gardé leur prestance et leur allure unique depuis plus de 1000 ans !
Rustiques, élégants, et avec un "tölt" qui ferait pâlir n’importe quel danseur 💃🐾

Un vrai voyage dans le temps… crinière au vent ! 🌬️⛰️

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🔴 **Viking**

Wordorigins.org

“_Not only did viking helmets not have horns, the Norse people who sailed about the northern world were more likely to be peaceful merchants and traders than plundering raiders and pirates. Viking was an occupation, and an occasional gig at that, not an ethnic identity._”

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Wordorigins.org Newsletter · vikingWe all have a solid idea of what a viking was, one of a band of a horned-helmeted, Old Norse warriors who ravaged northern Europe in the medieval period. And that idea is wrong. Not only did viking helmets not have horns, the Norse people who sailed about the northern
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MediaFaro Magazine

Torching tradition as first woman raises the axe for Shetland's Vikings.

The people of Shetland, a group of islands north of Scotland, are welcoming the arrival of spring in dramatic style – by burning viking longships.

Up Helly Aa was first celebrated in 1881 and is unique to these islands. But it's a tradition that is evolving, with a woman at the heart of it for the first time.

mediafaro.org/article/20250330

A group of people dressed in historic clothing and carrying torches. | © Thomas Harms/RFI
RFi · Torching tradition as first woman raises the axe for Shetland's Vikings.By RFi
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