🇳🇴 Norway · Tumulus
Oseberg Ship Burial – Vestfold Viking Grave
Viking Age (Merovingian to Viking) · Viking Norse (Yngling dynasty)
21.6-m Viking karvi burial (834 CE) under 44-m mound — richest preserved Viking wooden burial.
🇩🇪 Germany · Ancient city
Altes Lager Menzlin – Slavic–Viking Trading Post
Early Middle Ages (750–900 CE) · Slavic Wends with Scandinavian traders
Altes Lager Menzlin – Slavic–Viking Trading Post in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Anklam area, Peene river bank, Menzlin village, Germany is a Early Middle Ages (750–900 CE) Slavic Wends with Scandinavian…
🇳🇴 Norway · Tumulus
Gokstad Ship Burial – Sandefjord, Vestfold
Viking Age (late) · Viking Norse (Vestfold chieftaincy)
23.3-m Viking longship (c.900 CE) under 44-m mound — chieftain burial with 64 shields, Sindri blue clay.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Tumulus
Ladby Ship Burial — Kerteminde, Funen
Viking Age (Late, c.925 CE) · Danish Viking (Jelling dynasty)
The Ladby ship (c.925 CE) is Denmark's only surviving Viking ship burial, a 21.5-m clinker warship set within a mound 230 m south of Kerteminde Fjord on Funen, excavated in 1934–35 by conservator G.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Ribe
Early Medieval Viking Age 704–900 (Denmark's oldest town dendro 704) · Danish Viking Age (South Jutland emporium — Frisian–Frankish contact)
Ribe — Viking Age emporium and Denmark's oldest town (dendro 704–710 market 8th c foundation, peak 700–900), on Ribe River 5 km from Wadden Sea tidal flats, southern Jutland. Excavated M.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Altes Lager Menzlin
Early Medieval Viking Age–Slavic 8th–10th c · Slavic Veleti–Groswin + Scandinavian (Gotlandic–Swedish) traders
Altes Lager Menzlin West Field — western barrow-and-settlement extension of the 8th–10th c Slavic–Scandinavian trading post at Menzlin on Peene River 7 km west Anklam, Groswin tribal land.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Birka
Viking Age Scandinavian 750–975 (8th–10th c) · Scandinavian Viking Age (Svear) — Svear–Gotlandic emporium
Birka (Björkö) — Scandinavian Viking Age emporium (c.750–975 CE) on Björkö island in Lake Mälaren, 30 km west Stockholm, Sweden's oldest town and UNESCO 555 (with Hovgården Adelsö estate).
🇳🇴 Norway · Tumulus
Tune Ship Burial — Rolvsøy, Østfold
Viking Age (Early, c.900–910 CE) · Norwegian Viking (Viken petty kingdom)
The Tune ship (c.900 CE, built c.910 burial) is a Viking Age karve longship, 18.7 m surviving (originally ~22 m), broad and fast, found in 1867 on the Båthaugen mound on Rolvsøy island in the former…
🇨🇦 Canada · Ancient village
L'Anse aux Meadows
Viking Age 1000–1006 CE (Norse Vinland exploration) · Norse Greenlanders (Icelandic Norse under Leifr Eiríksson / Thorfinn Karlsefni saga context)
Only confirmed Norse village in North America and earliest European settlement (~1000–1006 CE): eight turf-and-timber sod houses (halls 25×5 m, iron smithy, carpentry shed, charcoal kilns) on Épaves…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Old Scatness Broch and Iron Age Village
Iron Age to Medieval (c.400 BCE–1400 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age / Pictish / Norse
Iron Age broch village opposite Jarlshof with Pictish and Viking layers; one of Scotland's largest modern excavations.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Ale's Stones
Late Nordic Iron Age (Vendal period) · Late Iron Age Scandinavia (proto-Viking)
67 m Iron Age stone ship of 59 boulders on Baltic ridge near Ystad with solstitial alignments, c.600 CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement
Multi-period: Neolithic to Medieval (c.2500 BCE–1600 CE) · Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age (Broch) → Pictish → Norse
4,000-year layered settlement mound at Shetland's southern tip with broch, wheelhouses, Viking longhouse and medieval farm.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Hillfort
Trelleborg Viking Ringfort (Slagelse)
Viking Age (c.980–1000 CE, Harald Bluetooth) · Danish Viking Age
Archetypal Viking ring fortress west of Slagelse on Zealand, 136.5 m diameter circular earthwork with four cardinal gates, internal quadrants with 16 longhouses and outer bailey, built c.980 under…
🇩🇰 Denmark · Megalith
Lindholm Høje
Germanic Iron Age to Viking Age · Late Iron Age Jutland / Viking Danes
Viking-age burial field at Aalborg with 682 graves and stone-ship settings preserved under sand since 1000 CE.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Tumulus
Lindholm Høje Burial Field
Iron Age to Viking Age (500–1000 CE) · South Scandinavian Iron Age / Viking
Dramatic Viking burial field (700 graves) and Iron Age/Viking settlement on hill overlooking Limfjord at Nørresundby–Aalborg, preserved under windblown sand after 1000 CE abandonment.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Hillfort
Fyrkat Viking Ringfort
Viking Age (c.980 CE) · Danish Viking Age
Viking ringfort 120 m diameter near Hobro, North Jutland, contemporary with Trelleborg (Harald Bluetooth), with identical four-gate geometry and 16 houses plus a cemetery of 30 graves including wagon…