Odin will be extremely displeased the Thor trailer looks like such unmitigated crap

It's so bad they disabled embedding.

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Vikings brought Amerindian to Iceland 1,000 years ago

The first Native American to arrive in Europe may have been a woman brought to Iceland by the Vikings more than 1,000 years ago, a study by Spanish and Icelandic researchers suggests.

The findings boost widely-accepted theories, based on Icelandic medieval texts and a reputed Viking settlement in Newfoundland in Canada, that the Vikings reached the American continent several centuries before Christopher Columbus travelled to the "New World."

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Bizarre viking headline

"Young people prefer to live in sin" says the headline to a story from The Copenhagen Post Online

New figures reveal that young people are increasingly choosing co-habitation instead of tying the knot

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This strangely related to this story. Beware though, as it contains the year's worst pun:

Archaeologists given the rune around

After studying about a thousand inscriptions on ancient rune stones scattered around Scandinavia, a researcher from Uppsala University in Sweden has come to the conclusion that many of the carvings are gibberish.