Kanhave Canal
The Kanhave channel ( Danish Kanhavekanalen ) is in the Viking long arisen about 500 meters puncture by the Danish island Samsø (dt. Assembly island) in Kattegat . The canal , now silted up, was about a kilometer north of Stavns and connected the Stavns Fjord and the Mårup Vig . It was 11 m wide and so shallow that only ships with a shallow draft could pass it. It can still be seen today as a slight depression in the area.
The Vikings reestablished the island's original separation in the 8th century, which had (perhaps not even completely) disappeared due to the land uplift . The construction of the canal could be dendrochronologically dated to the year 726 ( the mythical king Angantyr , mentioned by Alcuin (735-804), ruled in Ribe ) based on the planks installed in some places . It may have served to enable Viking ships stationed in the fjord to sail west and to control entry into the Great and Little Belt .
literature
- Anne Nørgård Jørgensen: Nye undersøgelser af Kanhavekanalen på Samsø. Marinarkæologisk Nyhedsbrev 5. Roskilde 1995.
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid. Politiken, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8 ( Politikens håndbøger ) p. 102
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grethe Jacobsen, Håndværkets kulturhistorie , Håndværksrådets Forlag, København 1982, p. 78ff
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Coordinates: 55 ° 54 ′ 26.2 " N , 10 ° 36 ′ 20.4" E