Guided tour at Nordians hög - 6m high grave mound
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Duration 1 hour Guided tour at Nordian's high 1h Individually guided place - Nordians hög, a Vendel-era great place Location: Åshusby, near Upplands Väsby.
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Duration
1 hour
Guided tour at Nordian's high 1h
Individually guided place - Nordians hög, a Vendel-era great place
Location: Åshusby, near Upplands Väsby.
Book a guided tour at one of Uppland's largest royal mounds, 50m in diameter and 12m high. Do a guided visit to Nordian's mound. Having a guide with you gives a completely different experience of the place. Email to request a guide here.
How did people really live 300 years before the Viking Age? What did Sweden look like and who was in charge? Join a 1-hour walk at Nordians Hög, located at Åshusby near Upplands Väsby!
See and climb the royal mound Nordians Hög, a 12m high burial mound 30m in diameter. Walk in the middle of a large Viking-era burial ground and see the mysterious, difficult-to-interpret grave formation in the form of a trident.
With our guided tour, you get to experience and learn about a Sweden before Sweden came into being, come and hear about what life was like during the migration period and the Vendel era (400-800 AD) at Nordians Hög with us.
Learn about
* Vendel era as time period
* Funerals, parties, houses and rituals
* The religion of the Vendel period
* Party and power
* deciphering prehistoric traces in the landscape
* Tridents, mysterious reflections of Yggdrasil.
A warm welcome to a journey more than 1000 years back in time.