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Viking Age museums
- Viking Ship Museum (Oslo)In 1913, Swedish professor Gabriel Gustafson proposed a specific building to house Viking Age finds. These artifacts had been discovered at the end of the…
- Sagnlandet LejreSagnlandet Lejre sits on the island of Zealand in Denmark, just 4 km northwest of the town of Lejre and 1 km west of Gammel Lejre.
- Ladby shipOn the 28th of February 1935, a pharmacist named Poul Helweg Mikkelsen stumbled upon an ancient burial site near Kerteminde in northeastern Fyn.
- Lindholm HøjeThe northern ridge of Lindholm Høje rises above the city of Aalborg in Denmark. This high ground dates back to the 5th century AD during the Nordic Iron Age.
- Lofotr Viking MuseumIn 1983, archaeologists uncovered the Chieftain House at Borg on the island of Vestvågøya. This large Viking Age building was believed to have been…
- Foteviken MuseumThe waters of Foteviken Bay held secrets for centuries before anyone tried to tell their story. Archaeologists discovered sunken Viking ships in this…
- Jorvik Viking CentreJorvik Viking Centre sits beneath the streets of York, England, built on ground that once held one of the most remarkably preserved Viking settlements ever…
- BirkaIn the year 750, a trading port emerged on Björkö, an island in Lake Mälaren thirty kilometers west of modern Stockholm.
- L'Anse aux MeadowsL'Anse aux Meadows sits on the northernmost tip of Newfoundland, and it holds a secret that rewrote the story of who first crossed the Atlantic.
- Jelling stonesKing Gorm the Old raised a massive carved runestone in memory of his wife Thyra. This older stone stands at the town of Jelling in Denmark from the 10th…
- National Museum of DenmarkThe National Museum of Denmark opened its doors in 1825 within the heart of Copenhagen. Christian Jürgensen Thomsen served as the first director from that…