This bike trip starts from Varnhem and takes you over the colourfull fields of Västergötland to Götala Temple Hill, just outside the city of Skara. Götala is said to be the place of the viking age assembly, or thing, for the tribe living in this area, the Geats. You can read more about Götala in the book “The Well Spring of the Goths” (www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=97805953...) or on Fornguiden (www.fornguiden.se/download/got... (fornguiden.se), in Swedish).
For timestamps, follow these links:
0:00 Varnhem Abbey
0:50 Yellow rapeseed fields
1:01 Geats, Swedes, Gutes and Sámi of the Viking Age
6:55 The plains of Västergötland
7:56 Götala Tempelbacke
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