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The Legend Said True! in Norwegian Folklore for Five Centuries, This Lost Medieval City Really Exists and Was Revealed Thanks to the Georadar

A common field, a ruined cathedral and a five hundred-year-old manuscript have long oriented the research towards the same point. For almost ten years, Norwegian archaeologists have found neither walls nor foundations nor obvious traces of a city. The hypothesis was then imposed little by little. Hamarkaupangen could have remained a simple name written in a text, without proof of its existence. A legend of five centuries as the only starting poi…
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A common field, a ruined cathedral and a five hundred-year-old manuscript have long oriented the research towards the same point. For almost ten years, Norwegian archaeologists have found neither walls nor foundations nor obvious traces of a city. The hypothesis was then imposed little by little. Hamarkaupangen could have remained a simple name written in a text, without proof of its existence. A legend of five centuries as the only starting poi…

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Science-et-vie.com broke the news in on Wednesday, April 1, 2026.
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