Two Viking Burials, Separated by Ocean, Contain Close Kin

Kiona Smith, Ars

Roughly a thousand years ago, a young man in his early 20s met a violent end in England. Eight hundred kilometers (500 miles) away, in Denmark, an older man who had survived a lifetime of battles died sometime in his 50s. At first glance, there's nothing to suggest a connection between them over such a distance.