Viking settlements
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Birka and Hovgarden | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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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- Not be "self evident"
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- Be explained, with reference to a source