History Ribe: Scandinavia's Oldest Viking Town and Its Traders
Ribe is Scandinavia's oldest town. How excavations dated its market to the year 710 and what the Ribe viking town really traded in beads, antler and silver.
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4 articles in the Nordweg archive deal with Denmark. Collected here so you can follow the thread instead of searching for it.
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History Ribe is Scandinavia's oldest town. How excavations dated its market to the year 710 and what the Ribe viking town really traded in beads, antler and silver.
Warriors & Battles The Danevirke wall in Schleswig: how it sealed Denmark's southern approach, what excavation reveals about its building phases, and why it fell in 1864.
Warriors & Battles Trelleborg and the Viking ring fortresses: exact circles, four gates, Harald Bluetooth, and the still unsettled argument about what these sites were really for.
Runes & Symbols The Jelling Stones: how Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth carved love, power, and Denmark's conversion to Christianity in runes - and how Bluetooth got its name.
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