Another possible bit of Viking trivia: The Vikings must have been ridiculously fit. The steel sword Mikkelsen uses in stage battles weighs about 5 pounds, his shield weighs 7 or 8, and his helmet ...
swords and torches as they marched through Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, the UK's most northerly islands, culminating in the burning of a Viking-style replica galley. First held in the 1880s ...