The Viking Museum

Notes

Aros — byen under jorden at the Viking Museum, Sct. Clemens Torv / under Store Torv.^LouiseAritra

Aros = river-mouth town where Aarhus Å meets the sea.^Aritra From c. 800: growing settlement with harbour and market; merchants and craftspeople in small workshops; larger houses and small pit houses (grubehuse) — museum has a replica.^{LouiseSteffenStadsarkiv}

Ring rampart and moat from the first half of the 900s, built out by several kings including Gorm den Gamle; major expansion in the second half of the 900s under Harald Blåtand (958–987).^{LouiseSteffen}

Runestone exhibit / stones at the entrance to Aros in Louise’s stop list.^LouiseAritra

Norse gods exhibit includes Frey/Freyr, Freyja, Njord, Thor (Mjölnir), Odin, Frigg, Loki, and Tyr.^Aritra

Guide colour (use carefully)

Saturday walking-tour talk that is easy to overstate:

• Vikings framed as inventing aspects of the lawsuit — right to own land and to be judged by an independent jury (better pointed at the ting tradition).^Steffen
• About 7,000 English words from Danish / Norse — treat the round number as colour.^Steffen
• Gat = opening (cf. gap / Kattegat).^Steffen
• England paying heavily to keep Vikings away (Danegeld); “~50% of national budget” is a strong claim — safer as “large tribute payments.”^Steffen