- The Mosfell Archaeological Project has implications for the larger study of Viking Age and later medieval Iceland. Mosfellssveit encapsulates the major ecologies of Iceland: coastal, riverine, and highland.
- Culturally, the region is equally representative. In some ways it was a self-contained social and economic unit. In other ways it was connected to the rest of Iceland, not least through a network of roads, including an east-west route to the nearby meeting of the yearly Althing, Iceland's medieval parliament.
- With its coastal port at Leiruvogur the region was in commercial and cultural contact with the larger Scandinavian and European worlds, perhaps as far east as Constantinople.
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A Viking age pin from our Mosfell excavations
A knörr (Viking merchant ship)
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