Sweden

A traveling life: Birka, Sweden


Date: July 24, 2005
Publication: Glens Falls Post-Star travel page
Placement: newspaper
Viewership: 34,580
Photographer: Patricia & Robert Foulke

 

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.