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Spelling is hard, especially when the word is “Gjallarhorn”

On Friday, a champion was crowned in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The winner, a young man from Texas, won the competition when he correctly spelled the word “koinonia.” Koinonia, as you’ll all surely recall, was the title of an Outkast album from early in the 2000s.

(No, it wasn’t.)

In the spirit of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, the folks from the Minnesota Vikings’ official website asked some members of the team how to spell the word “gjallarhorn.” For the uninitiated, the gjallarhorn is the giant instrument that is sounded at U.