Johan Augustsson boards the longship into the mists of past days to build the 1/16 Viking (IX Century) from ICM.
Vikings! This mythical warrior people who inhabited Northern Europe from the late-700 to circa 1100 BC, traded and spread terror along the Baltic Sea and Western Europe’s coasts, and Eastern Europe’s rivers.
Much has been told, written, seen in movies and TV series, but most of this is pure fiction. From a scientific point much has already been discovered, but new archaeological finds have shed new light on these warriors, merchants, craftsmen, and even resulted in sections of history being re-written. For instance, remains of a Viking settlement in Newfoundland proves that the Vikings came to ‘Vinland’ – North America – long before Columbus, and a grave in Birka has proved to contain a prominent female warrior, instead of what first was thought as a male.
My own heritage is from the area around Vendel, north of Uppsala, which along with Birka, Gotland and Uppsala itself, is one of Sweden’s most important areas of findings from the Bronze and Iron ages. Vendel is a small hamlet, but the vast number of archaeological finds in the area has given name to the whole period before the Vikings – the Vendel age – from 500 t…
