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The Viking Age is the term denoting the years from about 700 to 1100 in European history. It was a formative period in Scandinavian history. Norse people explored Europe by its oceans and rivers through trade and warfare. They also reached Iceland, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Newfoundland, and Anatolia. This category lists towns and settlements ...
Kaupang was a Viking Age village that is generally considered to be the first town/marketplace in Norway. It is located near the present-day village of Tjøllingvollen in Larvik Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The village of Kaupang was located along the Viksfjorden, a branch off the main Larviksfjorden.
The Lofotr Viking Museum (Norwegian: Lofotr Vikingmuseum) is a historical museum based on a reconstruction and archaeological excavation of a Viking chieftain's village on the island of Vestvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the small village of Borg, near Bøstad, in Vestvågøy Municipality. [1]
The strap-work paneling showcases Viking tradition along with the carvings in the walls displaying fighting animals. The decorations are an essential connection between the pre-Christian Nordic traditions and the later Christianity of the Middle ages as well as representing the artistic style of Scandinavian culture.
Petty kingdoms of Norway c. 872. The petty kingdoms of Norway (Bokmål: smårike) were the entities from which the later Kingdom of Norway was founded. Before the unification of Norway in 872 and during the period of fragmentation after King Harald Fairhair's death, Norway was divided in several small kingdoms.
Skiringssal (Old Norse: Skíringssalr) was the name of a Viking Age hall which stood at a site now known as Huseby, about 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) southwest of the village of Tjøllingvollen in Larvik Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located in what was the old Viking village of Kaupang, which is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east ...
The Old Norse form of the name was Geirangr.The suffix -angr ('fjord') is a common element in Norwegian place names (see for instance Hardanger and Varanger). [4] [5] The first element could be the plural genitive of the Norse word geiri ('piece of land; field in a mountain side') which is related to English gore ('spear-shaped piece of land').
Gjesvær or Geaissvearra (Northern Sami) is an old fishing village in Nordkapp Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is the only place in Finnmark known from the Viking Age and is mentioned in the Heimskringla saga as Geirsver. [2] The name comes from the name of a bird called geirfugl. [3]