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Vikingen [1] is a small island in the southern part of Rødøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Vikingen is situated north of the village of Tonnes (in neighboring Lurøy Municipality ). The island is notable for having the Arctic Circle pass through it, something that is marked by a small statue with a globe.
Vestri Obygdir ("Western Wilderness") is a hypothesized 10th–13th century Viking fishing and hunting ground in Cumberland Sound of southeastern Baffin Island, Canada. Canadian writer Farley Mowat proposed the site in his 1973 book Westviking.
The story's two protagonists – feuding spacemen of the future who are of distant Scandinavian origin and one of whom (the villain) is historically conscious – decide to revive this Viking tradition, resorting to a deadly holmgang on a lonely asteroid instead of a sea island, in order to settle their irreconcilable differences over a tangled ...
A marked hill now covered in corn fields that was, up until about the 18th century, covered in wetlands on all sides. It was covered by a wood (a "holt") during the Viking Age. Viby may mean "the settlement by the sacred site" and contains traces of sacrifices going back 2,500 years [note 1]. [3] Onsild [1] Onsved [1] Othinshille [4]
Birka listen ⓘ (Birca in medieval sources), on the island of Björkö (lit. "Birch Island") in present-day Sweden, was an important Viking Age trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as many parts of Continental Europe and the Orient. [1]
According to a footnote in Arthur Middleton Reeves's The Norse Discovery of America (1906), "the whole of the northern coast of America, west of Greenland, was called by the ancient Icelandic geographers Helluland it Mikla, or "Great Helluland"; and the island of Newfoundland simply Helluland, or Litla Helluland."
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