Uppsala is a city simply north of Stockholm. It’s dwelling to the largest church in Scandinavia, the oldest college within the Nordics…and the graves of the descendants of the Old Norse gods.
Uppsala is a vibrant scholar city with a wealthy cultural life. The University of Uppsala is legendary worldwide, and it’s the oldest college within the Nordics. The college was based in 1477, and throughout the Great Power Era within the seventeenth and 18th century, the city of Uppsala was among the many prime European locations for greater training.
In the Vendel Era, roughly 550 AD and up till the Viking Age, Uppsala grew to become a middle for commerce and wealth was collected there. During that point the Royal Mounds of Uppsala had been raised. People imagine that these mounds had been devoted to Odin, Thor and Frej – or presumably three mythological kings of Sweden. As I go to the historic web site of Old Uppsala (Gamla Uppsala), I dive into questions of how a lot fact there’s to the Old Norse myths.
This video additionally explores Uppsala Cathedral, St Erik’s Well, Uppsala Castle, and Uppsala University. Special consideration can be given to one of the scholars, and later principal, of Uppsala University: Carl von Linné, Carl Linnaeus, a world-well-known botanist.
The botanical gardens of Uppsala is one other majestic sight, and it is becoming that we finish the video within the legacy of Carl von Linné, within the University Botanical Garden.
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