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Rune stone at the Viking bridge.
Rune stone at the Viking bridge.
Viking age runstone
Viking grave field
Arkils assembly place

Private Tour: 3h Viking History from Stockholm to Runic Kingdom

By Sweden History Tours
9.2 out of 10
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$251 per adult
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview

Join a Viking expert local guide on this 3-hour history tour from Stockholm and get to know the Vikings and their mark on Swedish history. See a preserved Viking parliament and visit one of Sweden's most famous gravefields at Broby bro, view the incredible Jarlabanke's rune stone bridge. Take photos of some 1000-years old rune carvings and decipher their messages. Hear the storey about the rich Viking woman Estrid and her grandson, the mighty lord Jarlabanki. Also listen to legends and sagas about Viking mythology. Transport from and back to your hotel/cruise port is included for centrally located hotels/cruise ports.

Activity location

  • Broby
    • Broby, Sweden, Sweden

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Broby
    • Broby, Sweden, Sweden

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Private Tour: 3h Viking History from Stockholm to Runic Kingdom
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h3h
  • English

Pickup included

Starting time: 9:30 am
Price details
AU$251.44 x 2 AdultsAU$502.88
Total
Price is AU$502.88
Until Sun, 24 Nov

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedDriver/vehicle
  • What's includedWhat's includedAll taxes and surcharges
  • What's includedWhat's includedHotel/cruise port pick up and drop-off. (Not nynäshamn harbour)
  • What's includedWhat's includedLocal and knowledgeable guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge

Know before you book

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Specialised infant seats are available
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • The duration of transfers are approximate, the exact duration will depend on the time of day and traffic condition.
  • We will tell you the time of your hotel pick up on reconfirmation. If your hotel is to far off the city centre, then we will give you another meeting point that is simple to get to.
  • Minimum numbers apply. 2 people at least to book this tour.

Activity itinerary

Broby
  • 40m
Hear about the might viking women Estrid, see the rune-stones she raised in remembrance of her dead family.Se her possible living farm from distance, the stones she raised at the Viking bridge. At this site her skeleton was found and a big local early Viking Age christian grave field with over 20 skeletons. Hear about the daily life in the viking age and how they where dressed and what they are etc etc.
Jarlabanke Runestones
  • 20m
Walk over and on to the great Jarlabanki's Viking bridge anno 1030, a 150-meter long causeway; constructed by the great lord Jarlabanki. Listen to the message on the rune stones, the monuments of dead Vikings. See the most locally known of the Jarlabanki rune stones, hear the history about the self confident powerful Viking lord Jarlabanki.
Arkils tingstad
  • 30m
Visit a unice preserved viking assembly place, a place for what law and order the Vikings had and enforced. Hear about the laws of divorce and the laws of killing others due to insults. About how their tribal system and life was. Hear the tales of the runestones and visit the beautiful lake side.
Vallentuna church
  • 30m
Go to Vallentuna 13th C church and see the most locally known of the Jarlabanki rune stones. Visit the church room, reformatic and bare in contrast to the former Catholic vivid painted church rooms. Explore the stone-master signatures fromwhen the church was built. Hear the first known written down Swedish ending rhyme is in the church. 

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESBroby
    • Broby, Sweden, Sweden

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEBroby
    • Broby, Sweden, Sweden

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