Viking settlements

WHS where Vikings have settled. Vikings were "seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe". (wiki)

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	Norse settlers arrived in southern Greenland from 1000 AD (AB ev)
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)
Viking Age Ring Fortresses	"The function of the fortresses can only be inferred. Finds from excavations conducted at the archaeological sites include crafts and items of daily life activities, as well as grave goods and death paraphernalia" (AB ev)
Visby	"Excavations have indicated that there was a trading settlement in the early Viking Age on the site of Visby"

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