Birka was also important as the site of the first Christian congregation in Sweden, founded in 831 by St Ansgar. Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 Le site archéologique de Birka, ...

Sweden is a big country. A land of rock, deep forests, rivers, lakes and seemingly endless coastline, and it’s from this ...

The video clips come from footage that Swedish filmmakers Mikael Agaton and Lars Rengfelt shot of a 1:30 scale model of Birka now housed in the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm.