A traveling
life: Birka, Sweden
by Patricia Foulke & Robert Foulke,
Glens Falls Post-Star travel page
Date: July 24, 2005
Publication: Glens Falls Post-Star
travel page
Placement: newspaper
Viewership: 34,580
Photographer: Patricia & Robert Foulke
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This small island in Lake Malaren west of Stockholm housed Sweden't
first town and trading center for more than two centuries during the
Viking Age, with a royal compound on a neighboring island. Vikings were
consummate town builders, craftsmen and merchants.
Caption: Guide Mia Westin describes
Viking life on the island of Birka in the 8th century.
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