Below is a list of five spectacular Viking Age Village Museums from Scandinavia worth visiting: 1. Frederikssund Viking Village The Frederikssund Viking Village is based in Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen on the island of Zealand (Sj쎦lland). It is an authentic Viking Age reconstruction of a Norse settlement which comprises five pit houses (that could have been…
This article will briefly discuss the two most largest Norse settlements dating to the Viking period in Northern Europe. The first one, judging by its size and its population, was most likely Hedeby, although recent research suggests that Upp쎥kra might have very well surpassed the latter in both regards. Hedeby/Haithabu Hedeby was an important Viking…
The picturesque UNESCO Norwegian N쎦r쎸yfjord area in the municipality of Aurland in Sogn og Fjordane county, Western Norway will see Njardarheimr Viking Village steadily becoming a reality as 2017 progresses. A popular touristic destination for ship cruises in Scandinavia, the village of Gudvangen from the same fjord will be soon home to a small reconstructed…
The small Nordic nation of Iceland is doubtlessly full of spectacular landscapes and natural wonders worth visiting. In this respect, the Vatnaj쎶kull National Park (one of the three national parks in Iceland) offers a variety of astonishing sceneries which feature the crystal clear beauty of meadows, rivers, and ice alongside the hectic and powerful volcanic/geothermal…
Helluland and Markland were (alongside Vinland) territories that were described in two Old Norse medieval sources, namely the sagas of Erik the Red and of the Greelanders. Thus, according to the Icelandic sagas, these two remote locations were the first to be spotted by Leif Erikson prior to his arrival in Vinland (situated in present-day…
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