Viking from Aland

Viking Age on stamps

In Aland you will find many traces from the Viking Age. This summer a Viking market will be arranged in Saltvik with the Viking "Hlodver Lange" as patron.

Snorri Sturlason

Anyone familiar with the Nordic literature has at some point maybe come across Snorri Sturlason's chronicle of the Viking Age, the "Heimskringla" from 1225 AD. In the "King Olaf Trygvason's Saga" the Norwegian king Olaf at one point chooses his crew for his pride ship "The Long Serpent". Hlodver Lange from Saltvik was handpicked as one of the king's closest men and bodyguards.
The new stamp depicts a stately man with a bushy beard on board of his ship.
The stamp was designed by Allan Palmer and printed in offset by BDT International Security Printing Ltd.

Stamps in detail

Value: 4.50 mk.
Date of issue: 28 July 2000.
Size: 28.6 x 36 mm.

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Stamps Aland
Postage Stamps 2000