Viking settlements
Connected Sites
Site | Rationale | Link |
Birka and Hovgarden | "Birka is one of the most complete and undisturbed examples of a Viking trading settlement of the 8th to 10th centuries." (OUV) | |
Gros Morne National Park | Vikings may have temporarily resided in St Paul's Inlet in the north around 1,000 years ago (AB ev) | |
Hedeby and Danevirke | Hedeby is a Viking era trading settlement. | |
Ilulissat Icefjord | Semermuit and Qajaa, both Viking archaeological sites, are within the WHS | |
Jelling | "Jelling was a Royal manor in the 10th century, during the reign of Gorro and his son Harald Bluetooth." (AB ev) | |
Kujataa | ||
L'Anse aux Meadows | the first and only known site established by Vikings in North America and the earliest evidence of European settlement in the New World (OUV) | |
Novgorod | It was founded by the Varangian dynasty | |
Southern Öland | "Later, around the years 800 to 1000 several Viking settlements appeared in the periphery." (wiki) | |
St. Kilda | "It is certain that the Vikings visited and may have settled the islands." (AB ev) | |
Visby | "Excavations have indicated that there was a trading settlement in the early Viking Age on the site of Visby" |
Suggestions?
Do you know of another WHS we could connect to Viking settlements?
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