Comments on: Chapter 7 | Page 16

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:44:48 +0000

Thank you! It did take a while, but part of that was procrastination on my end. XD

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:41:06 +0000

This must have taken ages! But it was worth it, it turned out great

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 02:38:49 +0000

Wow, that all sounds amazing. I definitely wish I could see it! And, well, read German and/or Danish. There’s certainly no doubt in my mind that I drew some things wrong, but I did what I could with the information I could find. Thanks!

By: guest

guest — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 01:06:28 +0000

I meant to say that glasery was a rarety in northern (and middle) Europe at that time, not northern Germany, Haitabu was Danish back than, and Germany didn’t even exist.

By: guest

guest — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 01:03:34 +0000

The Haitabu Museum in northern Germany has a lot of info (the whole display is both in German and Danish). They actually have detailed information on the different construction phasese the town had, like about how long early outer graveyards were used until the growing city swallowed them up, or which parts of town were used for which kind of industry (like glasery [a rarety in northern germany of that time], Gold smithery, tool/weapon smithery etc) , as well as other things like their trading networks, important graves, runestones etc. But I don’t remember details because I haven’t been there for years, and sadly the museum doesn’t seem to have much of an internet presence.
Anyway, it was a primitive looking, but for norther, even middle europe standarts in fact increadibly modern and rich town with influence on the whole continent and regular foreign visitors, sometimes even from arabic regions (which were back then, culurarly far aboue the whole of europe).

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:07:35 +0000

Whaaat awesome! I wish there were viking sites within driving distance to me! XD

By: Warpwaffel

Warpwaffel — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:04:33 +0000

I live about 30km from it. :D
(Which is totally awesome and means I can easily buy tasty mead! :D
)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:19:34 +0000

Yay! Have you been there? Cool! And thank you! :3

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:19:11 +0000

I didn’t work with anyone, but I did do some cursory research. There’s actually not a LOT out there about it? Or I didn’t find it. Or if there is, it’s probably in Danish. XD But since the guys are only here for a very short time, I didn’t worry about making it super accurate.

By: Warpwaffel

Warpwaffel — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:14:37 +0000

That definitely looks like Hedeby!
(At least the ramparts.^^)
Very nice picture. :D