Posts: 828 Location: Nykøbing Falster, Denmark
Sat 13 Sep, 2014 9:30 am
Also Danish archaeologists have discovered an entire new viking ringfort in Western Sjælland at Køge.
They were probably created by King Harald Bluetooth and are distributed through the country:
Aggersborg (the biggest) in northern Jutland, north of the Limfjord.
Fyrkat in northern Jutland, south of the Limfjord.
Nonnebakken on Fyn.
Trelleborg on western part of Sjælland.
Newly found fort at Køge in eastern part of Sjælland.
Trelleborg in southwest part of Skåne.
Borgerby in central-western part of Skåne.
Possibly a ringfort in Østfold Norway as well.
These would all cover the dominion of Harald Bluetooth and the reason why he wouldn't need a ringfort in central and southern Jutland would be that he is from the Jelling dynasty and these were his core lands.
Trelleborg had shown some signs of combat with arrows (19 found) being shot into the fort and totally new rapports signal that this new fort seems to have the gates burned!!
So maybe the Sjælland forts were attacked by Harald Bluetooth's son Svend Forkbeard supported by people from Sjælland that had chosen him as king instead.
Source to the new ringfort find:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archi...g-fortress
Also the Trelleborg (Sjælland) 2008 find of a 80cm viking age
shield has been conserved:
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Source:
http://www.historie-online.dk/nyt/moesmus_skjoldvises.htm
So this could have seen actual fighting in or around the ringfort?!