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Train like a Viking

This is the year the Vikings will be invading your screen from every angle. Vikings: Valhalla – the follow-up to Vikings and The Last Kingdom – is on Netflix, and The Northman, starring a ripped Alexander Skarsgård, hit cinemas in April.

The Vikings capture our imagination for their adventurous spirit and – lest we forget – brutal attacks around Christianised Europe. Rowing to shore, carrying off as much as they could and not worrying too much about the body count along the way.

That conventional ‘Vikings’ image as

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