Do you want to follow the Vikings!? Do you want to see, what there is, now, after 1000 years, in the places they have left their footprints? Do you want to read stories about Vikings, their ways of life? So, let the Adventure begin – In the Footsteps of the Vikings! Choose your starting point among ancient Viking cities.
Select your starting point or use the map to select any town! The municipalities can have one picture published without charge and according text. Here you may read information about the city in question.
In the Footsteps of the Vikings Game - Fovigame - under development!
About the coming Fovigame: In the game you are an archaeologist and scientist who studies and researches the history of the Vikings. But, at the same time you are a business man, because to get funding for the excavations you need to arrange exhibitions concerning the Vikings – all around the World.
It’s very useful to invest to the exhibitions and try to get as much audience as possible. So you can get a fair financing for your exploration travels. The labor force may be expensive in some places depending on the country. Also the exhibition premises may be expensive, but accordinly the amount on possible audience is bigger and even more solvent. Do not make the prices of the admission fees to high, because then many of the potential public might stay at home! Or maybe go to an exhibition arranged by a competition...
We are going to tell you stories about the Vikings in every city, town or municipality page as well as about those places; what they look like today, one thousand years after the Viking time.
Do you want to take part?
We appreciate if you have pictures that you have made, and we'll publish them gladly with information of the source and according link address. On other pages there are examples of pictures made for example by our artist Tero Lindfors. Photographs are welcome as well. Unfortunately it seems to be hard, finding any photos from the Viking era;-)
What about Vikings:
In the Nordic countries something starts happening around the 9th century that people even far away will soon experience. The Vikings enter the scene. Who are they? What are they seeking? What are their achievements?
The Vikings were skilful shipbuilders and navigators. Thanks to these skills the Vikings came to make themselves known over large areas of the ‘then known world’, in places such as Novgorod and Kiev in the east, Malta in the south and also America in the west, a part of the world that was not yet ‘discovered’ as we use to say in our euro-centric way.
It is from old books found in Iceland that we learn that the Vikings went to America. We are told that a Viking ship was driven during a storm to a strange coast, which is thought to have been what is now known as Labrador. When the captain of the ship returned home he told what he had seen. His story made a young Viking prince, called Leif the Lucky so excited that he decided to sail to the newly discovered coast. There he found wild grapes in such plenty that he called it Vinland, or the land of Vines. This might be part of what is now the Rhode Island.
More about the Vikings by Doctor Vivan Storlund
