Dublinia
Immersive Viking and medieval history museum in a former church hall linked by bridge to a cathedral.
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This guide to Dublinia opens with two skeletons pulled from the ground beneath the city: Maggie, a medieval Dublin woman whose bones show a life of hard labor and a rope still knotted at her neck, and Gunnar, a ninth-century Viking warrior found on George's Street who crossed the sea from Norway to fight his way into an elite guard. You'll hear how archaeologists pieced together what their bones can and can't tell about how they lived and died. It's told inside the former church hall where their remains are now displayed side by side.
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