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Heading for conquest
                                                                                        A late 10th-century Viking helmet,
                                                                                   made from iron, found in 1943 in a burial
                                                                                       mound near Gjermundbu, Norway.
                                                                                    In the background is Stainmore, where
                                                                                   Eric Bloodaxe’s death brought an end to
                                                                                    independent Viking rule in Northumbria

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