Pre-Viking Era Excursion to Vada Burial Mounds
Stockholm, Sweden
Trip Type: Day Trips
Duration: 60 minutes
Vada burial mounds are the remnants of an ancient Iron Age power centre by the Långhundra waterway, one of the most important trading routes in Sweden during the Iron Age. Three large burial mounds (two over 30 meters in diameter) dominate the landscape and are surrounded by more than hundred of graves. This tour takes you back in time to experience the Swedish epoch called the Vendel age (500-800 AD).
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Vada burial mounds are the remnants of an ancient Iron Age power centre by the Långhundra waterway, one of the most important trading routes in Sweden during the Iron Age. Three large burial mounds (two over 30 meters in diameter) dominate the landscape and are surrounded by more than hundred of graves. This tour takes you back in time to experience the Swedish epoch called the Vendel age (500-800 AD).
Vada had an important role in the trade between Uppsala (today Sweden's fourth biggest city) and the rest of what would become Sweden. Vada was a place that once tied tradesmen, craftsmen, warriors and farms together. The Vendel age is classified in Sweden as the first era of the late iron age (500-800 AD) that ends with the Viking Age around 1100 AD. This era brings a lot of changes, the importance of weapons grows, crafts and distant luxury trade with Europe flourish.
This tour is about a time travel experience, we gonna show you the Vendel era and let you feel like you are traveling back in time. During the tour we cover a lot of aspects about the Vendel epoch in Sweden, you will hear about:
The settlement of Vada
Feasts and gift-giving
Agricultural practice and clothing
Gravefields and burial rituals
Weapons, crafts and trading
The pagan religion
Differences and similarites between Sweden´s Vendel age and Viking age.
Come and discover Vada burial mounds and the Swedish Vendel Age. Let yourself be a part of this exciting and transformative era in Swedish history!
Vada had an important role in the trade between Uppsala (today Sweden's fourth biggest city) and the rest of what would become Sweden. Vada was a place that once tied tradesmen, craftsmen, warriors and farms together. The Vendel age is classified in Sweden as the first era of the late iron age (500-800 AD) that ends with the Viking Age around 1100 AD. This era brings a lot of changes, the importance of weapons grows, crafts and distant luxury trade with Europe flourish.
This tour is about a time travel experience, we gonna show you the Vendel era and let you feel like you are traveling back in time. During the tour we cover a lot of aspects about the Vendel epoch in Sweden, you will hear about:
The settlement of Vada
Feasts and gift-giving
Agricultural practice and clothing
Gravefields and burial rituals
Weapons, crafts and trading
The pagan religion
Differences and similarites between Sweden´s Vendel age and Viking age.
Come and discover Vada burial mounds and the Swedish Vendel Age. Let yourself be a part of this exciting and transformative era in Swedish history!
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