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Fall Asleep to Viking Iceland | Life at the Althing in 980 AD
Every summer, people from across Iceland gathered on a green plain beneath the cliffs, where temporary homes were built from turf and wool, laws were spoken from memory, and the whole country came together for two weeks.
There's nothing you need to remember tonight. If you fall asleep somewhere among the booths, you'll be in good company.
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Tonight: We travel to Thingvellir, Iceland, around the year 980, to spend a quiet midsummer at the Althing, the great assembly of Viking Age Iceland.
We help prepare a turf-walled booth, share meals of dried fish, mutton and skyr, and listen as the…
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