“This is yet another shift away from the image of unsophisticated barbaric Vikings swinging their swords around,” said Mads Dengsø Jessen, a senior researcher with the National Museum in Copenhagen.
Over the past 25 years, archeologists have found glass fragments in six excavations in southern Sweden, Denmark and northern Germany.
Political Cartoons View All 1199 ImagesThe museum said glass windows were for the upper echelons of society and religious use, as was the case in the rest of Europe.
Dengsø Jessen said there may have been glass windows in the Vikings' vast hall buildings.
This is something that is often omitted in the simplistic Hollywood portraits of Vikings,” Dengsø Jessen said.
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