why vestfold?
Vestfold, explore the Viking trails
Vestfold is the place in Norway boasting the most traces of our proud Viking heritage. The region between Mølen in the south and Borre in the north has many places worth visiting. Over a distance of 60 kilometres(40 miles) you will discover large, significant burial mounds, remains of Norway's first town and where the most important finds from the Viking age were made. Vestfold even has its own Viking ships, both original and replicas.
ATTRACTIONS
My favorite attractions
The Borre Mounds
Borre Mounds cemetery forms a part of the Borre Natinal Park at Horten. It is home to seven large and 21 smaller burial mounds. Excavations in the 1980s revealed that the oldest mounds date 600 AD, i.e. prior to the Viking era.
Adress:
Birkelyveien 9, 3182 Borre
What I like about it
Whether your excursion the Viking trail begins or finishes in Borre a visit to the Midgard Vikingsenter is compulsory, helpful and enjoyable. The museeum has permanent exhibitions showing Viking finds from Borre and daily life in Viking times.
Kaupang Skiringsal
Today, it is generally used as a name of the first town-like maket-place in Norway, the Kaupang Skiringssal, which is located in Tjølling near Larvik in Vestfold. Kaupang was an important merchant and craft center during the Viking period.
Adress:
Kaupangveien 276, 3260 Tjodalyng
What I like about it
Archaeological evidence indicates that the site might have been the first proto-urban settlement of some significance in Norway. Here you can also fint Kaupang Viking city.
Mølen pebbels beach
Mølen is Norway's largest beach of pebbels: the terrain left behind after the end of the most recent Ice Age 10.000 years ago. The curtural landscape of Mølen, cairns from the Iron Age, is one of the most majestic landscapes in Norway.
Adress:
3296 Nevlunghamn
What I like about it
Mølen is a habitat for a variety of rare birds species. Between 316 and 320 species of birds have been recorded at Mølen, more species than at any other site in Norway. It became the first UNESCO Global Geopark in the Nordics in 2008. This whole area is protected.
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Viking inspired photos
