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Hedeby
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English
Etymology
From en da Hedeby, from en non Heiða-býr heath-settlement.
Proper noun
en historical An important Danish Viking Age (8th to the 11th centuries) trading settlement.
en 2004 Kirsten Wolf Daily Life of the Vikings https://books.google.de/books?id=lLHBckH-ga4C&lpg=PA32&dq=%22Hedeby%22&pg=PA32#v=onepage&q=%22Hedeby%22&f=false 32 Greenwood Publishing Group 9780313322693 Hedeby (the heath-settlement) was Scandinavia's most southerly mercantile center. It is situated at the inner part of the Schlei fjord south of the town Schleswig (by which it was succeeded in the mid-eleventh century when it was destroyed by fire).
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