Aldeigjuborg: The Lost Viking City near Europe's Largest Lake

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Situated between the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast, lies the largest lake on the European continent. Known today as Lake Ladoga, it was known to the Germans as "Aldoga", and to the Vikings, as Aldeigja. This was the site of a prosperous trade and crafts settlement during the Viking age.

Sources:
Archaeological evidence for Staraya Ladoga - Natalja V. Grigorjeva
In Austrvegr - Marika Mägi
The Emergence of Rus 750-1200 - Simon Franklin and Jonathan Shepard
The Saga of Halfdan Eysteinsson - Translated by George L. Hardman
The Saga of Sturlaug the Industrious - Translated by Peter Tunstall
The Varangians - Sverrir Jakobsson
Viking Period workshop in Staraya Ladoga, excavated in 1997 - Anatoliy N. Kirpichnikov
Viking Rus: Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe - Wladyslaw Duczko

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