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Sunday, April 23, 2006

Vikings are still in Aarhus...

Århus The City of Vikings

"Museums Kopi SmykkerÅrhus was founded during the Viking Age, and there are still traces of the people who chose to settle by the mouth of the Århus Å river. The original town was situated along the river up to Immervad and in the part of the city where the Cathedral is today. Old street names such as Volden (The Rampart) and Graven (The Moat) mark the limits of the town as it then was.
One of the best places to go to get an impression of the city's original size, location and early development, is the Viking Museum which is housed in the basement of Nordea Bank at Clemens Torv.
When excavating the foundations for this building a large number of artefacts and other traces leading back to the Viking Age were found, and similarly the excavations at the Main Square (Store Torv) have provided us with a great deal of information about the city during the Viking Age.
At the Moesgård Museum you can also encounter the Vikings in the hall with the runic stones, at the Viking exhibition, in the reconstructed wooden church - a replica of one of the first small wooden churches in Denmark dating back to the late Viking Age - and in the reconstructed Viking houses.
You can also meet the Vikings in their everyday-life at the large Viking Moot which is held by the Moesgård Museum at the beach in Moesgård every year during the last weekend of July. This is a get-together for "Vikings" from Denmark, Scandinavia, and the British Isles where they demonstrate their skills with Viking weaponry, riding, craftwork, early "convenience goods", food and much more. It is a colourful and fascinating event where you can walk around and see, smell, taste and purchase the various goods - making you feel that you are back in a different era.

You can also acquire jewellery as worn by the Vikings. The shop Museums Kopi Smykker in the street of Kannikegade, in cooperation with Danish and foreign museums, makes exact replicas of ancient and Viking jewellery made from bronze, silver and gold."
(source: visitaarhus.com)

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