Connected Sites
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"Later, around the years 800 to 1000 several Viking settlements appeared in the periphery." (wiki)
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the first and only known site established by Vikings in North America and the earliest evidence of European settlement in the New World (OUV)
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"Excavations have indicated that there was a trading settlement in the early Viking Age on the site of Visby"
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"Birka is one of the most complete and undisturbed examples of a Viking trading settlement of the 8th to 10th centuries." (OUV)
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"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)
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"It is certain that the Vikings visited and may have settled the islands." (AB ev)
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"Jelling was a Royal manor in the 10th century, during the reign of Gorro and his son Harald Bluetooth." (AB ev)
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Semermuit and Qajaa, both Viking archaeological sites, are within the WHS
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Hedeby is a Viking era trading settlement.
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Vikings may have temporarily resided in St Paul's Inlet in the north around 1,000 years ago (AB ev)
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"The spit records 5,000 years of occupation, including the Viking-Age when there was a pagan trading settlement called Kaup (likely starting point of the amber road to the south). This was founded in the early 9th century CE as a colony of Birka (archaeology evidences Swedish Vikings, not Danish)." (Viking Age Ring Fortresses Nomination file, p. 207)
