In Njardarheimr, a Viking village in Gudvangen by the Nærøyfjord, you can meet "real" Vikings. Meet the Vikings! Njardarheimr - Njord's home Read more about Sagastad and the Myklebust ship, see the opening times and prices. With the launch of the Myklebust ship, we are again able to sail on the Nordfjord in Norway’s most magnificent Viking ship for the first time since King Audbjørn and his men over 1,150 years ago. This fits well with the estimated age of the findings in the burial mound. He is mentioned in Snorri’s saga about Harald Fairhair who fell in the battle of Solskjel in Nordmøre in the year 876. There is reason to believe that King Audbjørn of the Fjords was cremated in the Myklebust ship. The burial mound in itself is 30 metres in diameter and four metres high, with a wide trench around it (it was filled in in the 19th century). In autumn 2016, experienced boat builders from Bjørkedalen in Volda started to build the new Myklebust ship modelled on what we think it may have looked like. We know the dimensions of the Myklebust ship because of the bed of ashes in the burial mound, the number of treenails (clinch nails) and the number of shield bosses that were found in the burial mound. The Myklebust ship is both the last and the largest ship to have been burnt at a funeral during the Viking Age. The custom of burning the ship at funerals was typical of Western Norway in the 8th and 9th centuries. The Myklebust ship differs from the Oseberg and Gokstad ships in that it was burnt at the funeral. The burial mound, which is locally known as ‘Rundehåjen’ on the farm Myklebust in Nordfjordeid, was excavated in 1874, and the Myklebust ship was found several years before Gokstad (1880) and Oseberg (1904). Avaldsnes Viking farm is within walking distance from the centre. The audio-visual guide shaped as King Harald Fairhair will guide you through 3000 years of Avaldsnes history. The information is drawn from the Sagas and other archaeological findings.
King Harald Fairhair built his main house here around the year AD 870, and Avaldsnes was a royal residence until approximately 1450.Īt Nordvegen History Centre you can learn more about the kings who ruled the “North way” from Avaldsnes. Norway's oldest royal residenceĪvaldsnes just outside of Haugesund is Norway's oldest royal residence, and was selected as the millennium residency of the county Rogaland. He celebrated mass here and founded a Church, and King Olav the Holy and his bishops held Christian Court Law which superseded the Norse Laws in the year 1024. These stories are filled with accounts of blood revenge (an eye for an eye) and families defending their own kin.Īccording to the Icelandic recorder of Sagas, Snorre, Olav Tryggvason docked at Moster in AD 995, following his voyage across the North Sea from England, in order to become king of Norway. The Sagas are prose histories mostly describing events that took place. The Viking community was a kindred way of living, where most issues were solved within and between the families. The Vikings were also involved in a wealthy merchant trade, not only in Europe but also including the Byzantine Empire and the Baghdad Caliphate. However, the image of the Vikings as bloodthirsty, savage plunderers do not tell us the whole story. Many emigrated to seek fortune and freedom, and pillaging became an alternative source of income.Įffective sailing ships and weapons made the Vikings a feared people amongst contemporary Christian Europeans. During the same period, the King's power increased and he demanded large taxes from the population. The Norwegian Vikings also discovered Vinland, present-day America, long before Columbus.īefore the first millennium, iron tools were introduced into agriculture and there was a shortage of land to cultivate. The Vikings' seaworthiness and impulsiveness led to the development of new areas along the Norwegian coast, westward to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Shetland, Orkney, Scotland, Ireland and Greenland. Historically, the Viking era began with the attack on Lindisfarne monastery in AD 793, and ended with the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066, when the English army successfully repelled the Viking invaders led by King Harald Hardråde.
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