svizzerams wrote:Viking History!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome!!!
Having made a few small pilgrimages specifically to see Viking stuff (Roskilde, DK - Viking Ship Museum; National Museum in Copenhagen; Trelleborg - Viking Fortress ruin; the Osberg Ship Museum in Oslo and then London, with the main aim of seeing the Lewis chess set and the Sutton Hoo Helmet...) I've picked up a few books along the way. Still haven't made it to Iceland or Sweden....or Yorkshire. But in addition to the Vikings, the Bronze age peoples of Scandanavia/British Isles are also fascinating.
The Vikings (http://www.amazon.com/Vikings-Revised-E ... 863&sr=8-6)
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Vikings (http://www.amazon.com/Penguin-Historica ... 11&sr=8-25)
The Viking World (http://www.amazon.com/Viking-World-Jame ... 36&sr=8-10)
Viking Age Iceland - Penquin (http://www.amazon.com/Viking-Age-Icelan ... 36&sr=8-18)
Bronze and Iron Age Scandanavia is almost as interesting as the Viking Age - these two books were written by P. Glob, a Danish archaeologist and are hard to find - I found used copies at Powells Bookstore in Portland several years ago. The National Museum in Copenhagen has excellent exhibits of many items found in the mound burials - textiles esp rare and interesting. There are a couple of other museum sites that have the famous Bog man (that I first read about in my Weekly Reader in grade school piquing my life long interest in history/archaeology and wondering why our species does the things it does)
The Mound People (http://www.amazon.com/Mound-People-Dani ... 13&sr=8-12)
The Bog People (http://www.amazon.com/Mound-People-Dani ... 13&sr=8-12) Looks like this one has been reprinted in a newer edition in 2004.
Alessandro wrote:Mind you, Trelleborg is in Sweden. I used to live +30 years on the island of Gotland where metal detectors are banned and they still find treasures with silver coins now and then. This spring they found +1000 silver coins on the south of the island.
http://www.helagotland.se/nyheter/artik ... id=7605316 article in Swedish, 6000 coins.
Kurt wrote:York is cheesy but still worth it.
svizzerams wrote:Alessandro wrote:Mind you, Trelleborg is in Sweden. I used to live +30 years on the island of Gotland where metal detectors are banned and they still find treasures with silver coins now and then. This spring they found +1000 silver coins on the south of the island.
http://www.helagotland.se/nyheter/artik ... id=7605316 article in Swedish, 6000 coins.
There is another Trelleborg in Denmark, near Slagelse on the far west coast of Zealand. It is a cool Viking fortress from the 980's. I've had a chance to visit it a couple of times. They have marked the foundations of the buildings with insets of concrete. They use a flock of sheep to keep the grass clipped so you can see the outlines. The Vikings must have had some crazy interest in geometry because the symmetry and placement of the buildings makes a very nice design. Apparently the sea was closer to the location 1000+ years ago.
I still need to visit Sweden and York, UK to continue my Viking history studies. It would be cool to find a hoard of coins. The National Museum in Copenhagen has some excellent exhibits on Vikings and the Bronze Age people. They were always tossing things in bogs....from coins up to complete ships.
You can see more of the layout of the structures in this foto:
nowonmai wrote:York is not cheesy, it's a solid english city. Mind you despite living in York for a couple of years I never went to the Jorvik centre, as I always assumed it was designed for french teenagers with silly string and dyed hair, so if you're referring to that I can't comment. Anyway, I'll only get excited about Vikings when they come back and we can have a proper fight on our hands without all this bullshit ideology in the way. Don't tell anyone but I'm planning to annihilate the remnants of the Viking army by catching them at Manea, between Mepal and Downham Market, with their backs to the Old Bedford river. No quarter will be given then we'll have a massive party for a week or two. Then for a laugh we'll invade Denmark seeing as all their menfolk are fertilising English fields.
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