Large Viking Burial Site Found in Uppsala

One of the largest excavations ever made in Uppsala

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(All information below is written by original YouTube Poster, not me. I simply cleaned up some of the grammar and spelling)

The Pillars of old Uppsala 800 BC – 600 AD:

In October 2013, Swedish archaeologists revealed that they had found a 900 meter long wooden pillar column near the royal burial ground. In February 2014, they found the oldest samples from the wooden pillars – the oldest ones were 2800 years old!

So the wooden pillars were erected and in use during a time period of at least 1400 years.

Experts believe the pillars would have been at least around 7-8 m high and needed around 1,5 ton of rock to support them. Also a smaller wooden column of over 500 meters long has been found south of this column but hasn’t yet been totally excavated.

The colonnades were found near a famous burial site where the three Iron Age kings Aun, Egil and Adils are believed to be buried.
In Ynglinga saga, Odin is considered the 2nd Mythological king of Sweden, succeeding Gylfi and was succeeded by Njörðr.

These ancient colonnades were found in the center of Old Uppsala during work on a new railway line. It’s the largest excavation ever made in Uppsala.

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