( Wikimedia Commons )Īt Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. The scene depicts Hinguar and Hubba setting out to avenge their father, Lothbrok. įeatured image: Excerpt from folio 47v of Harley MS 2278. She has two videos about Vikings already at a website she calls Viking Iberia. The professor is also trying to raise money to produce a documentary video about Vikings in Galicia. She has also been comparing aerial maps from the 1950s with recent satellite images and sees that some sites are like Viking camps found elsewhere. She and her team will examine with metal detectors sites that are unusually shaped. It is such a local thing, in some cases only a Spaniard, and in some cases someone who can speak the local language can have access to – so I am very fortunate!” I hope to be able to fill in some of these blanks and share it with the whole community. But there is a lack of facts and data about when they were here, where they went, and how long for. In some towns there are festivals and pilgrimages that pay homage to these roots. “They are proud of this link to the Vikings. “It is hugely important to share any information that we find with the local community, so they can relate their history to the interaction with the Vikings,” García Losquiño said. In some places Spanish people of today share traditions with Scandinavian cultures-not Spanish or Celtic, but Viking, she said. Some people in the region have blue eyes and red hair, and they speculate Vikings stayed there and intermarried. The professor intends to reach out and educate the local people about their Viking heritage by inviting them to digs and to contribute to exhibitions where the researchers will share their findings. She is applying for funding to do a more complete study of the Viking presence in Galicia and Seville, which the locals are very interested in. Some of the sites are in marshes, which are good for preserving archaeological evidence, she said.
García Losquiño said no one knows where they stayed or what they did while there. Written sources say during one visit Vikings came in the fjord at Santiago and stayed three years in the fields. But tomography showed it to be a longphort, or shore-side fort similar to where Vikings wintered in Britain after taking over a harbor.Ī Viking anchor (9th century) discovered in Loire Atlantique, France ( Wikimedia Commons ) Locals assumed the mound was a motte-and-bailey structure, or a castle-type structure with a wall on a raised area. She saw a mound on the beach near the anchors. She visited the region in March 2014 when storms caused Viking anchors to wash ashore. Most of the studies focus on their activities in other countries such as Britain and Ireland. They visited the area from around 840 until the 11th century but there is no realization that there is this vast thing to be explored. “Internationally, there is only a vague knowledge that the Vikings went there. “There are written accounts of Viking raids in northern Spain but, archaeologically, absolutely nothing has been done on an academic scale,” she told The University of Aberdeen’s research news website. She expressed surprise about how little is known about the Vikings’ activities in Spain. However, the lack of information about Viking activities in Spain is about to change with a new study planned by Irene García Losquiño of the University of Aberdeen’s Center for Scandinavian Studies.
Map of Viking expansion in Europe ( Wikimedia Commons ) Maybe some Vikings of that time and place were known as Erico el Rojo instead of Erik the Red. Locals take pride in Viking heritage and point to some people’s blue eyes and ginger hair. Unusually, the Vikings’ presence in one particular place that they landed and stayed a while, northern Galicia in Spain, has not been studied. They voyaged from their homelands in Scandinavia, north and west to Iceland and Vinland and south down the Atlantic Coast and into the Mediterranean and Black Sea and up into Eastern Europe and Russia.
Many people do not realize how far and wide the Vikings of the 8 th to 11 th centuries ranged.
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