Samsø

Samsø is a Danish island in the Kattegat 15 kilometers off the Jutland Peninsula [1]. Due to its central location, the island was used during the Viking Age as a meeting place [1]. People have lived and hunted on Samsø since the ice receded at the end of the last Ice Age [1]. Excavations at Tønnesminde and Endebjerg show evidence of human habitation from the Stone Age through the Viking Age [1]. A canal was dug across the island at its narrowest place [1]. The canal was about 500 m long and 11 m wide and could in its time be navigated by vessels with a draught of up to 1 m [1]. It was dug and clad with wooden linings in the years 726–729 AD; the last part of the Scandinavian Iron Age [1].