During the Viking Age, Birka was an important trading center. The archaeological sites of Birka and Hovgården, on the neighb ...
Gamleborg, also known as Gamleborg Viking Fortress, was the first fortress on the Danish island of Bornholm. Built around 750 ...
The Danevirke is a system of Danish fortifications. This important linear defensive earthwork across the neck of the Cimbrian ...
The Eastern Settlement (Eystribyggð) was the first and largest of the three areas of Norse Greenland, settled c. AD 985 b ...
Hovgården is an archaeological site on the Lake Mälaren island of Adelsö. During the Viking Age, the centre o ...
Lembecksburg was a medieval ring wall with a diameter of 95 meters and a height of ten meters. According to old lore, it was ...
Ladby Ship is Denmark's only ship grave from the Viking period. Around 925 AD, the king of Ladby was buried in his ship, whic ...
Borre mound cemetery (Borrehaugene) is an exceptional large area of burial mounds in Scandinavia. Today, seven large mounds a ...
Oseberghaugen is a Viking era burial mound. The Oseberg ship was found in the Oseberg burial mound in 1904. This Viking longs ...
Brattahlíð, often anglicised as Brattahlid, was Erik the Red"s estate in the Eastern Settlement Viking colony ...
Tinnumburg is the best preserved of the three ancient ring forts in Sylt. The fort was built around the birth of Christ. The ...
Rurikovo Gorodische (Рюриково городиm ...
At Søndre Hella is a restored burial ground with over 20 graves from the Late Iron Ages, ca. 500-1000 AD.
Aggersborg is the largest of Denmark's former Viking ring castles, and one of the largest archeological sites in Denmark. It ...
Hulterstad has served as a Viking burial ground. Noteworthy graveyards can be found there, together with the usual Viking str ...
The famous Kvitsøy Stone Cross was erected between 800–1050 AD. Some say it was put there by English missionarie ...
Lejre was the capital of an Iron Age kingdom sometimes referred to as the Lejre Kingdom. According to early legends, this was ...
Gettlinge is a village in the southwest portion of the island of Öland It is known for its impressive Viking stone ship buri ...
The Karlevi Runestone, designated as Öl 1 by Rundata, is commonly dated to the late 10th century. It is one of the most nota ...
Very little evidence of, Scandinavian settlement has been found in the eastern Baltic area, outside of the towns and trading ...