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Was this the view the Vikings met when they first arrived in the Nærøyfjord? Aboard a large longship... Who knows?
I've tried to give the picture a slightly picturesque expression, without exaggerating ...
The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America.
It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age. The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia, but to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period.
The Scandinavians of the Viking Age are often referred to as Vikings as well as Norsemen, although few of them were Vikings in the technical sense.
Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the British Isles, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, the Baltic coast, and along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes in eastern Europe, where they were also known as Varangians. They also briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies. The Vikings founded several kingdoms and earldoms in Europe: the kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar), Orkney (Norðreyjar), York (Jórvík) and the Danelaw (Danalǫg), Dublin (Dyflin), Normandy, and Kievan Rus' (Garðaríki). The Norse homelands were also unified into larger kingdoms during the Viking Age, and the short-lived North Sea Empire included large swathes of Scandinavia and Britain.
Several things drove this expansion. The Vikings were drawn by the growth of wealthy towns and monasteries overseas, and weak kingdoms. They may also have been pushed to leave their homeland by overpopulation, lack of good farmland, and political strife arising from the unification of Norway. The aggressive expansion of the Carolingian Empire and forced conversion of the neighboring Saxons to Christianity may also have been a factor.
Sailing innovations had allowed the Vikings to sail further and longer to begin with.
Information about the Viking Age is drawn largely from primary sources written by those the Vikings encountered, as well as archaeology, supplemented with secondary sources such as the Icelandic Sagas.
The Myklebust ship is the largest Viking ship that has been found in Norway. It was found in a burial mound in Nordfjordeid in 1874, but has since been forgotten by many. Now the ship has risen from the ashes only a few meters from the fjord where it first sailed for over 1000 years ago.
The Heddal Stave church (www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/30679417426/) is one of the biggest stav churches in Norway, and dates back from the 13th century. It has been restorated several times, and not always in the correct manner. But this sanctuary part is IMO quite nice, and in a way gives you the feeling stepping back in time! It was the first time I had to use an ISO setting of 2500. Normally I would never do that, because it is not the strongest point of Sony camera's. But I had no choice, it was almost dark inside and I didn't bring my tripod with me.
With some help of Lightroom and different denoise filters I was able to come up with this. It could have been worse.
Lovely valleys, bare mountains and cold winds, snow packs, glaciers, beautiful lakes, and then there are the enchanting fjords that never stop to amaze. The most beautiful country of Europe, for me no doubt about that, with only one minor aspect, which is the weather. During my month of traveling I only had 4 really nice days, the rest of the time clouds, rain, and very changeable! Still no regret, and I will go back to make even more than the 3500 pictures that I took this time.
Another very active vacation that took me to the south west up to Trondheim in a sort of triangle between Oslo- Trondheim and Bergen with the whole route visible here (www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153668247101759&set...).
On the last stage before Oslo (the 27th day), I visited another stav church (the first was here www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/29543872340/), and from all the churches I saw this was the biggest, situated in Heddal. Outside wonderful, inside less spectacular, because it has been renovated in earlier years, and they almost ruined it. Other stave churches are more interesting in the interior.
Norway, a stunningly beautiful country. Around every corner a chance for a scenic image, forcing me from time to time to stop every kilometer to get out of my car, sometimes with screeching brakes, and sometimes forcing me to curse because there was no place to stop.
Lovely valleys, bare mountains and cold winds, snow packs, glaciers, beautiful lakes, and then there are the enchanting fjords that never stop to amaze. The most beautiful country of Europe, for me no doubt about that, with only one minor aspect, which is the weather. During my month of traveling I only had 4 really nice days, the rest of the time clouds, rain, and very changeable! Still no regret, and I will go back to make even more than the 3500 pictures that I took this time.
Another very active vacation that took me to the south west up to Trondheim in a sort of triangle between Oslo- Trondheim and Bergen with the whole route visible here (www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153668247101759&set...).
The 13th day, another sunny day, and loads of great pictures including the impressive Jotunheimen scenic drive and glacier landscape! I started the morning in Lom to visit this stave church. Stave churches are unique for Norway, and the most closest thing to Viking ships! (the landscape shots will come later, I have posted so many already, you might get bored with them.)
Norway, a stunningly beautiful country. Around every corner a chance for a scenic image, forcing me from time to time to stop every kilometer to get out of my car, sometimes with screeching brakes, and sometimes forcing me to curse because there was no place to stop.
Lovely valleys, bare mountains and cold winds, snow packs, glaciers, beautiful lakes, and then there are the enchanting fjords that never stop to amaze. The most beautiful country of Europe, for me no doubt about that, with only one minor aspect, which is the weather. During my month of traveling I only had 4 really nice days, the rest of the time clouds, rain, and very changeable! Still no regret, and I will go back to make even more than the 3500 pictures that I took this time.
Another very active vacation that took me to the south west up to Trondheim in a sort of triangle between Oslo- Trondheim and Bergen with the whole route visible here (www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153668247101759&set...).
Bay City Michigan hosts the Tall Ships again with much excitement and high attendance. Every three years we enjoy a nice variety of Tall Ships and pirates. This year includes several new ships as well as some that have visited before.
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Roskilde Viking Ship Museum
The ship seen here was a warship which would have carried 65-70 men. The oak of the hull has been carbon dated to AD 1042 and comes from Dublin in Ireland, which was a major Viking centre at that time.
Bay City Michigan hosts the Tall Ships again with much excitement and high attendance. Every three years we enjoy a nice variety of Tall Ships and pirates. This year includes several new ships as well as some that have visited before.
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Beautful scene at the pier in Tønsberg in Norway. I was lucky to avoid people with cellphones and most of the modern devices in the background. Taken with Mamiya RB67, 90mm SEKOR @f11, Ilford Pan f 50 developed in Fomadon P.
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