{"id":7105,"date":"2025-12-16T19:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=7105"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:05:25","slug":"castra-legionis-romes-planted-cities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=7105","title":{"rendered":"Scandinavia before the Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birgitta Hoffmann<\/p>\n<p>Farming in Scandinavia in antiquity was precarious; the high latitude and quality of the soil and the geography in some regions tended to force the population into a series of well-defined regions, such as Zealand, the Oslo Fjord or West Norway. However, recent research has shown that by the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> century, an extremely gold-rich society developed in these areas that developed a structured society with rich high\/kings and impressive sanctuary districts, laying the foundation of the world that would at the end of the 8<sup>th<\/sup> century produce the expeditions that we know as the Vikings.<\/p>\n<p>During this dayschool we will take a look at the modern research in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany and ask what the society was like that developed these objects and sites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dayschool<\/strong>: Saturday,<strong>\u00a0 25 April 2026<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Time<\/strong>: 11.00\u2013 16.00 GMT<\/p>\n<p><strong>ZOOM LECTURE<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"474\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"66\"><strong>Price<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"120\"><strong>Concessions<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"129\"><strong>Minimum No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"132\"><strong>Maximum No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"27\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"66\">\u00a335<\/td>\n<td width=\"120\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"129\">8<\/td>\n<td width=\"132\">50<\/td>\n<td width=\"27\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>You can book this course through\u00a0our online booking service.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively You can book via the MANCENT booking form and pay with cheque or\u00a0 contact Birgitta Hoffmann for the BACS details or a PayPal invoice or finally,\u00a0 through\u00a0Eventbrite\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/1986331422756?aff=oddtdtcreator\">here: https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/1978291528215?aff=oddtdtcreator<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact:<br \/>\nBirgitta Hoffmann<br \/>\n55 Broadwalk, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5PL<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birgitta Hoffmann Farming in Scandinavia in antiquity was precarious; the high latitude and quality of the soil and the geography in some regions tended to force the population into a series of well-defined regions, such as Zealand, the Oslo Fjord or West Norway. However, recent research has shown that by the 3rd century, an extremely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7246,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7105","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7105"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7247,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7105\/revisions\/7247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}