Muncus

The entire viking design is based on the Roman style; all from the costumes to the two-edged sword. Formally, you learn that the vikings took off 'round year 800. In practical terms, these fighting phenomenon match the Roman cult and goes way back to the Celtic periode. See the old Italian/Roman sources in which the Celts are described. Wow, info on CD -wish you could dig that up!

Well, from my herritage in that country I can tell there are lots of archaelogical, Roman findings even in mid Norway (heartland of the Vikings), very close to the pritty great fort which is in focus due to the 1000 year anniversary in the old town of Levanger. The connection to Romans is real, but the pattern in it as such seem still foggy to this day.

All over Norway there are in total prox 400 forts built some 2000 to 1500 years ago, and nobody seem to have a clue on what culture actually made those systems - networks - of protection and defence, at the very same time as the iron culture really took off in the highlands in this beautiful land of Vikings. In a speech and historical review hosted at the National Cultural Center of Stiklestad in September 2009, a Norwegian historian, Roy Vega, pointed to a possible impulse from the Romans, with regard to the logistics of defence, protection, transportation and commerce in times where tons of iron were brought out from the Norwegian mountains to the Romans. - I have doubts that the Romans, the most relevant consumers of iron, let this values float into their empire for many hundred years to come, without any protection of this important, strategical and comprehensive imput from the high north. We have indeed to look into this stuff, since even a lite archaeological research might bring very important history to the lime light, said Vega. - Not to mention what could appear in continental archives if we really keep focus in this directions. One of the most central towns in the old Viking land, Levanger, will selebrate 1000 years anniversary in 2011, and since this town has a great fort dated by C14-methodes more than 2000 years way back in history, Roy Vega hopes that there will be resources to literally dig up the "Roman question" with regard both to the iron and the forts. Some others that may have some ideas about an eventual Roman input and impulse behind the iron logistics of Norway, and the forts built in the same periode of time?