Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Birka and Hovgården' has mentioned 'Port' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Contents 1 History 2 Rimbert's description 2.1 Bridgehead of Christian missionaries 2.2 Kings 2.3 Church 2.4 Probable fortress 2.5 Ting assembly 3 Adam of Bremen's description 3.1 Location and port 3.2 Bishop 3.3 Location of Unni's tomb 3.4 Destruction 4 Bjxc3xb6rkxc3xb6 archaeological site 5 See also 6 References 7 External links | WIKI |
| Based on Rimbert's account, Birca was significant because it had a port and it was the place for the regional ting. | WIKI |
| Adam only mentions the port, but otherwise Birca seems to have been significant to him because it had been the bridgehead of Ansgar's Christian mission and because archbishop Unni had been buried there. | WIKI |
| xe2x80x94With great difficulty they accomplished their long journey on foot, traversing also the intervening seas (maria), where it was possible, by ship, and eventually arrived at the Swedish port called Birka. | WIKI |
| This might mean that he sailed off from Hamburg or Bremen instead of some port in Baltic Sea, since the later account by Adam of Bremen gives the distance of Scania and Birka to be only five days at sea. | WIKI |
| Location and port[edit] | WIKI |
| Adam described Birka as a Geatish port town and had gathered many details about it. | WIKI |
| Birka is the main Geatish town (oppidum Gothorum), situated in the middle of Sweden (Suevoniae), not far (non longe) from the temple called Uppsala (Ubsola) which the Swedes (Sueones) held in the highest esteem when it comes to the worship of the gods; here forms an inlet of the Baltic or the Barbaric Sea a port facing north which welcomes all the wild peoples all around this sea but which is risky for those who are careless or ignorant of such places ... they have therefore blocked this inlet of the troubled sea with hidden masses of rocks along more than 100 stadions (18 km). | WIKI |