Jomsborg

History and characteristics

After an essay Rudolf Virchow in the Journal of Ethnology in 1872, the thesis was first amplified followed that Jomsborg was identical in the time of Harald Bluetooth and Sven Forkbeard with the legendary city of Vineta. To 970 reported the Messenger of the Caliphate of Córdoba, Ibrahim ibn Jaqub that in Pomerania, a large port city, " with twelve gates " lie, " superior to all peoples of the North" whose force was. Adam of Bremen describes it in the 11th century as one of Europe's largest and wealthiest cities, he called the city Jumne. It was " the greatest city which Europe holds ," she offers " for barbarians and Greeks in a wide area frequented meeting place ".