Nordfjordeid is a small village from western Norway (Norwegian: Vestlandet, Vest-Norge or Vest-Noreg). It is the administrative centre of the municipality of Eid which belongs to Sogn og Fjordane county. Subsequent excavations from two burial mounds dating back to the Viking Age on the site of a small farm in the village led to the…
Old Norse for market place is kaupangr, but nowadays the term is mostly associated with Kaupang (i.e. the trade centre) in Skiringssal, on the western side of Oslofjord and in Viksfjord, near the town of Larvik (part of Larvik kommune), Vestfold county, southern Norway. This article will briefly discuss the history of the kaupang in…
Ribe is a small town situated in the southwest of the Jutland peninsula (Danish: Jylland), pertaining to the enlarged Esbjerg Municipality of the Region of South Denmark (Danish: Syddanmark).슠According to a recent study undergone by three archaeologists at the University of Aarhus in Denmark and the University of York in England, voyages between Ribe and…
Normandy is a historical region located in contemporary northwestern France. It is renowned through its long standing historical legacy, as from late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages it had gradually been inhabited by Celts, Romans, and Germanic tribes, among which most notably were the Normans. The Roman Empire was ultimately forced to withdraw from…
Many myths surround the Viking Age and most of them are quite inaccurate from the historical point of view. Most of the popular misconceptions about the Norsemen can trace their origin in the works of the Catholic monks of the early Middle Ages or various Romantic artists and writers of the 19th century. Among the…
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