Using surrounding organic material, archaeologists were able to date the rock to around 800 A.D., meaning the carving is about 1,200 years old, Småberg, who teaches courses on Viking history, said.

This carving may not show a Viking, but it could show someone from one of Sir Martin Frobisher's expeditions to the Canadian Arctic in the 1570s, the researchers said.

This carving may not show a Viking, but it could show someone from one of Sir Martin Frobisher's expeditions to the Canadian Arctic in the 1570s, the researchers said.

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