A ‘Roman’ army from Norway of a thousand men may have fought in Denmark 1,800 years ago

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A ‘Roman’ army from Norway of a thousand men may have fought in Denmark 1,800 years ago

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A Norwegian archaeologist believes that the Norwegians were on their way to the Roman Empire as mercenaries around the year 205.

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