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Link Tips New Stamps Popular Service | Viking from AlandViking Age on stampsIn 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 SturlasonAnyone 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 detailValue: 4.50 mk.Date of issue: 28 July 2000. Size: 28.6 x 36 mm. More information Stamps Aland Postage Stamps 2000 |
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