Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
Borg was the home of a Viking chieftain over 1,000 years ago. Today, Borg is the location of Lofotr, a living museum of the Viking chieftain's village.This is the site of a reconstruction of one of the main buildings as well as visible remains within the archaeological excavation sites.
The museum unit has about 53 permanent employees and 13 full-time-equivalent positions through the company Lofotr Næringsdrift AS, which is wholly owned by Museum Nord. [1] Museum Nord's administration is located at Melbu in Hadsel Municipality (staff and archives) and Borg in Vestvågøy Municipality (business and marketing). The director of ...
It existed in the early Viking Age, maybe earlier, and was located on the southern coast on eastern Lofoten, near today's village Kabelvåg in Vågan Municipality. The Lofotr Viking Museum with the reconstructed 83-metre-long (272 ft) longhouse (the largest known) is located near Borg on Vestvågøya , which has many archeological finds from ...
Excavations brought to light remains of the largest building ever to be found from the Viking Era in Norway, 83 meters long and 9 meters high. The chieftain's seat at Borg is estimated to have been abandoned around AD 950. Today the site is the location of the Lofotr Viking Museum. [7] [8] [9]
Lofotr Viking Museum; M. Moesgaard Museum; Museum of Cultural History, Oslo; N. National Museum of Denmark; Norstead (Newfoundland) R. ... Viking Ship Museum (Roskilde)
The Lofotr museum in Borg shows a reconstructed Iron Age Viking chieftain's residence, with a house measuring 80 metres (262 ft), built of stone and turf. The 424-square-kilometre (164 sq mi) municipality is the 231st largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more