Great Viking Fortresses Built By King Harald Bluetooth

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – About 1,000 years ago, legendary King Harald Bluetooth built several impressive Viking fortresses. Today, there is not much left of these once powerful ancient buildings, but re-constructions give us a unique glimpse of what life was like inside the circular ringforts. Harald Bluetooth was the Viking king of Denmark between 958 and 970.

Aerial view of the Viking ring fortress of Aggersborg. The similarity in design with Trelleborg near Slagelse, is clearly evident. Image credit: View author information – CC BY 2.0

King Harald was famous for uniting parts of Denmark and Norway into one nation and converting the Danes to Christianity.

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