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Art editor Andrew Nash
Managing editor Simon Adams
Managing art editor Julia Harris
Researcher Céline Carez
Production Catherine Semark
Picture researcher Julia Ruxton
Editorial consultant David M. Wilson
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Art editors Rebecca Johns, Peter Radcliffe
Managing editor Jane Yorke
Managing art editors Owen Peyton Jones, Jane Thomas
Art director Martin Wilson
Associate publisher Andrew Macintyre
Picture researchers Brenda Clynch, Harriet Mills
Production editors Jenny Jacoby, Melissa Latorre
DTP designer Siu Yin Ho
Jacket editor Adam Powley
Editorial consultant Philip Parker
US editor Margaret Parrish
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Animal-head post
from the Oseberg
burial ship, Norway
Silver pendant of
a Viking woman
Silver brooch
from Birka,
Sweden
The Åby Crucifix
from Denmark
Danish
coins
Bronze key from
Gotland, Sweden
Gilded bronze mount from
horse’s bridle, Broa, Sweden
The Jelling Cup
LONDON, NEW YORK,
MELBOURNE, MUNICH, AND DELHI
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