{"id":910,"date":"2016-01-26T11:07:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T10:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=910"},"modified":"2016-01-26T11:07:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T10:07:38","slug":"want-to-be-a-viking-go-study-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"Want to be a Viking? Go study in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC0441.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-911\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC0441.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0441\" width=\"4288\" height=\"2848\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC0441.jpg 4288w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC0441-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC0441-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4288px) 100vw, 4288px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #252525;\">They might have a bad reputation for sacking villages in Ireland or any place their longboats could reach, but the Vikings of Scandinavia were also successful farmers, ironsmiths and skilled navigators. Now young people in Norway once again have the chance to learn the skills of their forefathers \u2014 minus the raping an pillaging \u2014 at the world\u2019s first government-funded college course in how to live like a 9th century Viking. I\u00a0went to the town of Seljord in the south of the country to find out more for Irish Newstalk Radio:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"audioBoom player\" src=\"\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/boos\/4105515-in-norway-you-learn-viking-skills-in-school\/embed\/v4?eid=AQAAAIhCp1YrpT4A\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They might have a bad reputation for sacking villages in Ireland or any place their longboats could reach, but the Vikings of Scandinavia were also successful farmers, ironsmiths and skilled navigators. Now young people in Norway once again have the chance to learn the skills of their forefathers \u2014 minus the raping an pillaging \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}