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🇸🇪 Sweden · Temple complex
Vendel Period → Early Viking Age 500–1100 (Swedish pre-Christian) · Vendel Period Svear (Yngling dynasty) — Swedish pagan royal
Gamla Uppsala — Vendel Period royal cult centre (c.500–800 CE pagan temple and 6th c King's Mounds Kungshögarna: three 45–60 m diameter burial mounds 9–11 m high, Thing Mound flat-top) on Uppsala…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Burial field
Vendel Period → Viking Age 550–1100 (Iron Age boat burial) · Vendel Period Svear → Viking Swedish (Fyris royal corridor)
Valsgärde (Vallsgärde) — boat-grave cemetery (Vendal Period 6th c → Viking Age 11th c, 15 boat graves + 80+ graves) on Fyris River hill 3 km north Gamla Uppsala, Uppsala RAÄ 209. Excavated 1928– G.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Burial field
Migration → Vendel Period 550–790 → Viking Age to 10th c · Vendel Period Svear (Tiundaland) — type eponym Vendeltid
Vendel (Vendel parish Tierp) — boat-grave field (Vendel Period 550–790 + Viking 14 graves total 1881–83 H.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Tumulus
Vendel Period to Early Middle Ages (c.500–1150 CE) · Vendel Period Scandinavia / Early Swedish Kingdom
Magnate complex with three monumental Vendel Period royal burial mounds (Östhögen, Mellanhögen, Västhögen, 50–75 m diameter, 8–11 m high, c.550–600 CE), Thing mound and a 12th-century church on the…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Tumulus
Vendel Period to Viking Age (c.550–1100 CE) · Vendel / Viking Age Svear
Cemetery on a ridge above the Fyris river used for 600 years (5th–11th c.) with 15 Vendel–Viking boat graves (c.600–1100), chamber graves and 62 cremations.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Tumulus
Vendel Period (550–800 CE) · Vendel Period Svear
Eponymous Vendel Period cemetery in Vendel churchyard with 14 intact boat graves 550–800 CE excavated 1881–93 by Hjalmar Stolpe.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Migration to Viking Age (c.200–1050 CE) · South Scandinavian Iron Age / Vendel–Viking
Small island (48 ha) in Lake Mälaren's Helgö, 5 km long, excavated 1954–74 (Holmqvist, Lundström) revealing 800 years of craft (bronze, iron, jewel, glass) and long-distance imports: Coptic bronze…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Burial field
Vendel to Viking Age (550–1050 CE) · Gotlandic Vendel/Viking
Remote forest burial ground between Anga and east coast, 320 exceptionally preserved Vendel–Viking graves (cairns, stone settings, ships, cists) on narrow ridge. Excavated limited, undisturbed.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Tumulus
Vendel Period (c.550–600 CE) · Vendel Period Scandinavia
Monumental Vendel Period tumulus at Vendel parish (Tierp) — 37 m diameter, 8 m high, excavated 1914 (Stolpe monument) with cremation of King Ottar Vendelcrowk (Ohthere) noted in Ynglingatal and…
