The Viking History of the Lofoten Archipelago
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Dan Snow explores the Viking history of Lofoten, an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Lofoten is known for a distinctive scenery with dramatic mountains and peaks, open sea and sheltered bays, beaches and untouched lands.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. I'm just in a forest in the Highlands of Scotland, |
| 0:04.9 | the Kengorms National Park. I'm just beside the crystal clear waters of Locke and Island. |
| 0:11.6 | It means in Galic Locke of the Island and in the middle of the Locke there's an island on which |
| 0:16.8 | there is a 13th century castle. It was once the castle of Alexander Stewart who was known as the |
| 0:22.5 | Wolf of Barnauc. Anyway this podcast has nothing to do with this Locke or indeed the Hans of |
| 0:27.0 | Scotland. This podcast is a repeat one of my favourites from the Bat catalog. I went to the |
| 0:32.0 | low-foton islands off the coast of Norway and the Arctic to sail on a Viking replica ship. |
| 0:37.1 | I mean it's difficult to fit so many cool words into one sentence. We went out with a group of |
| 0:43.0 | reenactors, people that reconstructed this ship and quite early on in the day they started drinking |
| 0:48.6 | Viking Age moonshine. So things get a little bit loose by the second half of this podcast but do |
| 0:53.5 | enjoy it. If you want to go and check out the Bat catalog of all these podcasts they're all available |
| 0:58.5 | at History Hit TV. It's my new digital history channel. We got a couple new programs going up this |
| 1:03.9 | week. We got one about a Roman villa excavating a Roman villa. Another is looking at all the evidence |
| 1:08.8 | about what might have happened to the princes in the town. Both those new documentaries exclusively |
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| 1:25.4 | dollar you can check it all out see if you like it. In the meantime everyone enjoy this trip for |
| 1:28.8 | low-foad and islands. So here we're just walking now past the Lofoto Viking Museum. It is a pretty |
| 1:42.0 | astonishing building. Tell me about this. It's actually a reconstruction of the biggest Viking house |
| 1:47.2 | ever found in the world and the biggest Viking house ever found in the world was found 40 meters |
| 1:52.6 | away from where we have our reconstruction. Okay so is this indentation the ground here? Yes this |
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