Hedeby
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Hedeby was an important Danish Viking Age trading settlement near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Around 965, chronic
Reconstructed houses in the area of the old settlement
Site of the former town of Hedeby
Two reconstructed houses at Hedeby
View of the Viking Museum
Uppåkra
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Uppåkra is a village and parish in Staffanstorp Municipality, in Scania, southern Sweden, located five kilometres south of Lund. The village is known for its Iron Age archaeological site, which has be
Hedeby
…flows the Eider River, which marked Denmark's southern border from 811 to 1864. Hedeby was the second largest Nordic town during the Viking Age, after Uppåkra in present-day southern Sweden. The city of Schleswig was later founded on the other side of the Schlei. Hedeby was abandoned after its destruction in…
Uppåkra church, built in the 1860s on the site of the medieval church.