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VIKING COINS OF HAROLD BLUETOOTH

Could it be true that where there’s smoke there’s fire? That’s what archaeologists involved in studying a recently uncovered hoard of Viking age coins are asking themselves.

The find was announced April 20 by Director of the North Jutland Museum Lars Christian Norbach. The find was discovered by a young girl with a metal detector about five miles from the ruins of the Viking Fyrkat fortress ringfort near the town of Hobro in

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