Viking 'Parliament' Discovered Beneath Parking Lot in Scotland

Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 11:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A mound under a parking lot in Scotland was once the gathering site for an ancient Viking parliament, a place called the "Thing." Such parliaments were held throughout northern Europe by the Norsemen to settle legal disputes.

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