If you thought that there's nothing new to get at Birka and everything is known, you are badly mistaken. Especially during the past years there has been a lot going on. There is now an article about the latest investigations to be found under "'A' for 'Articles'" -> "Virtual excavations" in Birka.
Article on "virtual excavations" at Birka
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The memorial stone at the Grönsfurth
The memorial stone in Fockbek commemorates peace treaties between Danish Vikings and Franks - the so-called first German-Danish peace.
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Woolcomb-interview on Youtube
In mid-March, the youtuber and textile-worker "JilianEve" contacted us for a little interview on wool combs. Ása accepted the request and sat down to have a textile tool chat in a setting a little different from that on the Viking markets.
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Questions regarding wool combs
Especially this year the same questions keep being asked about the availability of wool combs, their prices and whether we are willing to send them by parcel delivery. Víl answers some of them here.
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Ribe warrior week 2020
Actually, we did not expect to be at any larger Viking event this year. So we were more than lucky when we saw that the warrior week in Ribe would take place, an opportunity we just had to grasp.
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Easter in Hedeby
The Viking Museum Haithabu is closed - as is almost everything else, due to the Corona pandemic. No markets are taking place and for the first time in four years, the hospitality of the spring market's organizers as well as the warm atmosphere of what would have been our first market this year has been denied to us. Luckily, we moved to Northern Germany a few months ago. So we took our cups and some beer and went to the historical place anyway.