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Can you please tell me if the vikings were cannibals at all?
Hello,
the Vikings were not cannibals: their burial rituals included human sacrifices, but they didn't eat the flesh of their victims.
However, in some cases of colonies or groups stranded away without food winter, episodes of cannibalism took place.
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