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Title
Viking Trade City
Subject
Brisbane, Brisbane Courier, burial, Denmark, Germany, Hedeby, QLD, Queensland, ship, tourism, trade, trading, ships, Viking, vikings
Description
An article on page 8 of the Brisbane Courier newspaper on December 29, 1930. The article reports on the forthcoming excavations of the main Viking trading centre of the ninth to eleventh centuries, Hedeby. The site is now in northern Germany in South Slesvig, but belonged to Denmark during the Viking Age. The excavation was prompted by the discovery of two burials and a 60ft ship, as well as defensive banks. The article notes that there was much interest in the excavation, and this presumably extended to the newspaper readers in Brisbane. Today Hedeby is a major tourist attraction and includes a museum, a recreation of part of the town, and fully reconstructed defensive banks.
Creator
Anon.
Source
National Library of Australia
Publisher
Brisbane Courier
Date
29 December 1930
Rights
No Copyright
Format
Newspaper Article; PDF
Language
English
Document Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Newspaper Article; PDF