Researchers just dug up a 1,000-year-old Viking ring fortress in Denmark

If you're like me, you've spent some time in the past few months power-watching the History Channel's "Vikings." And therefore, you're going to be really psyched to learn that archaeologists have discovered something that's as badass as Ragnar Lothbrok and half as badass as Lagertha Lothbrok.

Archaeologists have just found a 1,000-year-old Viking ring fortress — called a "Trelleborg" — on the Danish island of Zealand. Vikings probably used the fortress, as they did the six other known Trelleborgs in Denmark (5) and Sweden (2), as bases for raiding English territories. 

If you're interested in checking out the other Trelleborgs, Google Maps is on it for you.

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The new fortress, named Vallø Borgring, is the first to be discovered in sixty years. 

Lasses Sonne, a scholar of Viking history, pretty much summed the discovery up: "It's great news!"

Gizmodo has more information about how archaeologists found it. Hint: MAGNETS!