The key element in a Viking festival has embraced female participants for the first time. Up Helly Aa in Lerwick, Shetland, began in the 1880s but it only allowed women and girls to join the Jarl ...

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Participants dress as Vikings known as “guizers” and are organised into different squads. The lead squad is known as the “jarl squad”. To be a jarl, a person must have been on a committee ...

Jarls were noble warriors - the Anglo-Saxon equivalent was an earl. Unlike this prestigious landmark, much smaller boat burials were common among the Vikings. So far the team have found bones from ...

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Become a Jarl, control every aspect of your village and protect your community at all costs. Build and customize ships and explore the fjords in the unforgiving world of Vikings Dynasty.

In the early Viking Age, society was divided into three classes. Jarls were rich landowners or traders. They had land, property, ships and people working for them. Jarls had to protect and provide ...

Vikings Dynasty has been annoucned for a PC release, as you'll be able to forge your own destiny with Valhalla’s blessing next year ...

Getty Images The galley has been built by the squad and its burning marks the end of the festival It takes half an hour for the Jarl's squad of Vikings to drag him and his ship to the burning site ...