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Viking Age raiding, trade, farming and settlement

c. 750-1100 CE · Scandinavia, North Atlantic, Baltic and river routes

Scandinavian societies combined farming and craft with raiding, commerce, tribute and settlement across seas and eastern river systems.

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How the setting appeared

Farmsteads, assembly sites, seasonal markets, ports, ring forts, burial grounds and ships linked rural production with wide mobility.

Agent citation CIT-UNESCO-JELLINGCIT-BRITISH-SUTTON-HOOCIT-UNESCO-HEDEBY Setting and material context · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people lived

Free and unfree households farmed and made goods; women managed estates and some traveled, while enslaved captives were traded and exploited.

Agent citation CIT-UNESCO-JELLINGCIT-BRITISH-SUTTON-HOOCIT-UNESCO-HEDEBY Lifeways and community · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people worked

Shipbuilding, navigation, ironwork, textile production, farming, hunting and commerce supported both local life and long-distance expeditions.

Agent citation CIT-UNESCO-JELLINGCIT-BRITISH-SUTTON-HOOCIT-UNESCO-HEDEBY Work, tools and exchange · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Belief, ritual and worship

Norse polytheist rites and Christian practice overlapped for generations; Jelling materially records royal conversion and state formation.

Agent citation CIT-UNESCO-JELLINGCIT-BRITISH-SUTTON-HOOCIT-UNESCO-HEDEBY Belief, ritual and evidence limits · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Historical geography

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Agent citation CIT-UNESCO-JELLINGCIT-BRITISH-SUTTON-HOOCIT-UNESCO-HEDEBY Historical-geography anchor and stated limits · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Evidence register

Guides used for this record

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CIT-UNESCO-JELLING

Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/697

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-BRITISH-SUTTON-HOO

Sutton Hoo and Europe, AD 300-1100

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/galleries/sutton-hoo-and-europe

The British Museum

CIT-UNESCO-HEDEBY

Archaeological Border Complex of Hedeby and the Danevirke

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1553

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

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