Private Tour: Viking History Trip from Stockholm Including The Runic Kingdom

Join a Viking expert local guide on this 3-hour history tour from Stockholm and get to know the Vikings and their mark on Swedish history. See a preserved Viking parliament and visit one of Sweden's most famous gravefields at Broby bro, view the incredible Jarlabanke's rune stone bridge. Take photos of some 1000-years old rune carvings and decipher their messages. Hear the story about the rich Viking woman Estrid and her grandson, the mighty lord Jarlabanki. Also listen to legends and sagas about Viking mythology. Transportation from and back to your hotel/cruise port is included for centrally located hotels/cruise ports.

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Broby, Broby, Skane County

Hear about the might viking women Estrid, see the rune-stones she raised in remembrance of her dead family.Se her possible living farm from distance, the stones she raised at the Viking bridge. At this site her skeleton was found and a big local early Viking Age christian grave field with over 20 skeletons. Hear about the daily life in the viking age and how they where dressed and what they are etc etc.

Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: Jarlabanke Runestones, Taby Kyrkby, Taby Sweden

Walk over and on to the great Jarlabanki's Viking bridge anno 1030, a 150-meter long causeway; constructed by the great lord Jarlabanki. Listen to the message on the rune stones, the monuments of dead Vikings. See the most locally known of the Jarlabanki rune stones, hear the history about the self confident powerful Viking lord Jarlabanki.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Arkils tingstad, Tingvallavägen 27, 186 50 Vallentuna, Sweden

Visit a unice preserved viking assembly place, a place for what law and order the Vikings had and enforced. Hear about the laws of divorce and the laws of killing others due to insults. About how their tribal system and life was. Hear the tales of the runestones and visit the beautiful lake side.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Vallentuna church, Kyrkvägen 4, 186 30 Vallentuna Socken, Sweden

Go to Vallentuna 13th C church and see the most locally known of the Jarlabanki rune stones. Visit the church room, reformatic and bare in contrast to the former Catholic vivid painted church rooms. Explore the stone-master signatures fromwhen the church was built. Hear the first known written down Swedish ending rhyme is in the church. 

Duration: 30 minutes