Vikings were undoubtedly masterful sailors, but even they needed a safe place to rest and evade the hazards of the seas. The pit stops on Viking voyages have mostly been lost to time due to limited archaeological evidence, but this hasn’t stopped one researcher from retracing the trade routes that Vikings embarked on.
Greer Jarrett, an archaeologist at Lund University in Sweden, has spent the last few years searching for answers to verify how exactly Vikings traveled on the seas. Having conducted his own sailing trials aboard boats tied to Viking tradition, Jarrett has identified a series of small, sheltered ports called “havens”. This discovery fills in a major piece of the puzzle when it comes to Viking sea travel, showing where Vikings stopped as they ventured up the west coast of present-day Norway.
Jarrett's Viking pursuits have been shared in a paper recently published in the Journal of Archaeological ...
