Hedeby

Port

historic fortified Viking town south of present-day Schleswig town in North Germany

Location: 54.4911, 9.5653

What this place is

Port — the trading harbour at the head of the Schlei, the Danish emporium between the North Sea and the Baltic

Who is recorded here

Ansgar travel · AD 826

In art

File:Archäologisches Bodendenkmal Haithabu in der Gemeinde Busdorf im Kreis Schleswig-Flensburg in Schleswig-Holstein B1.JPG — Matthias Böhm

About the place

Hedeby was an important Danish Viking Age trading settlement near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Around 965, chronicler Ibrahim ibn Yaqub visited Hedeby and described it as "a very large city at the very end of the world's ocean."

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