Vikings in Lithuania
We’ve heard about the Scandinavian Vikings who went West across the Sea to England and Ireland, the Rus who travelled upriver of the Eastern Baltic shores to take root in Kyiv.
What about Vikings in Lithuania?
A Forgotten Capital
For just seven short years in the 14th century, Trakai stood as the capital of a rising nation.
A First and Only King
There was not ‘Kingdoms’ as such, but tribes and groups of peoples who etched out smaller carvings for themselves, until Mindaugas.