The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

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region, former eastern Prussia) (Figure 38. 2 ). It was supposed that in the Vendel period,
Scandinavians of Grobin ̧a moved to the Sambian peninsula and founded a new settle-
ment there (Martens 1996 : 54 ). This conclusion is not supported by Scandinavian
jewellery from the ninth–tenth centuries found in the vicinity of Grobin ̧a (Sˇturms 1949 :
207 fig. 2 , 213 fig. 4 ).
The Scandinavian elements at Wiskiauten were mainly found in the cemetery (c. 215
mounds) with cremation and inhumation graves (Nerman 1936 ; Mühlen 1975 ; Martens


Figure 38. 1 Map showing the sites with finds of Scandinavian origin in eastern Europe.

–– Fjodor Androshchuk––
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