Kaupang is the name of a town with roots from the Viking Age, situated in Vestfold county in Norway. Some archaeologists believe it was the first town in Norway. The Viking Age is the name of the period between 793 A.D and 1066 A.D in Scandinavia. ... Vestfold is a county in Norway, bordering Buskerud and Telemark. ...
Excavations and studies have found that Kaupang functioned as a handcraft and commercial center, with around 1,000 inhabitants. The vikings lived there from around 700-900 CE. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Common Era (CE), also known as the Christian Era and sometimes as the Current Era, is the period beginning with the year 1 onwards. ...
In the summer of 2000, the University of Oslo began an extensive new excavation programme at Kaupang. This article is about the year 2000. ... The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo, in Latin Universitas Osloensis) was founded in 1811 as Universitas Regia Fredericiana (the Royal Frederick University, norwegian ), modelled after the recently established University of Berlin. ...
Those with the raised roof, Type B, are often further divided in two subgroups; the Kaupanger group with a whole arcade row of posts and intermediate posts along the sides and details mimicking stone like capital.
The Kaupanger group consists of: Kaupanger, Urnes, Hopperstad and Lom.
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