Viking Market Town That Disappeared (Kaupang) | | NJ Ep 4

[@NorthernHistory]

This episode was voted in on a poll I made on the community section. I'll be posting more polls for future episodes, so make sure to check that if you haven't! www.youtube.com/@NorthernHistory/community

[@margomaloney6016]

Very interesting video, thanks for sharing! 😊

[@eldelflowerwater]

John Hardy wrote Fallen Empire, but there are others too. This podcast was excellent. Thank you! My list of places to visit is expanding quickly! I really appreciate this. My Danish friends when I visit them always take me to interesting sites like you are doing, which ordinary tourists would not necessary know about such as Bronze age burial mounds in Nordsjælland. Regards, Andy

[@NorthernHistory]

It wasn't John Hardy, I'll let a few more people chip in here to see if they read my mind haha

[@northhugr]

Great use of sound effects to spark the imagination! It's sobering to think about the towns and cities that have vanished into history, and how so much of what we see today as permanent will vanish in the coming centuries. There are so many stories hidden around us. So many generations who have walked the same roads and fields.

[@mossig]

Mer troligt att land höjning gjorde vattenvägen ej farbar. Det såg väldigt grunt ut i vattnet från bron. Sama sak har hänt på många ställen i Skandinavien.

[@NorthernHistory]

Yeah might be a contributing factor; although sea level was abut 2-3 meters over today's in the viking period

[@artrioangelus]

Do Viking artifacts turn up in the farm fields where the town once was?

[@NorthernHistory]

Yes, they have turned up. Fragments, waste, bits and pieces, it all scatters over places where human habitation has been and unless the whole landmass is replaced, objects remain in the lower parts of earth for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

[@thomaswattsjr.7]

Perhaps the poem you referred to is the extant remnant of an old English work from an anonymous writer which is now called "Ruin".

[@NorthernHistory]

I wish, I'll check that out. I was actually thinking about Ozymandias, might have been a bit pretentious when trudging through a muddy farm field with no statues about

[@thomaswattsjr.7]

@@NorthernHistory sadly, not much remains. It was written about Roman ruins in Britain which were, at the time, unexplainable by the locals.