Viken (landscape)
Viken or Vika (German: Bay) is the historical name of the area around the Oslofjord in southeastern Norway and western Sweden . Since the Middle Ages, Viken has only referred to Bohuslän in today's Sweden.
During the Viking Age , Viken comprised the historical provinces of Vestfold , Vingulmark and Ránrike . Vestfold is largely identical to the modern Vestfold landscape, but also includes the coastal areas of Buskerud. Vingulmark includes parts of the Akershus and Østfold landscapes as well as smaller coastal areas of modern Buskerud. Ránrike is largely identical to northern Bohuslän (now Sweden), but also includes smaller parts of the modern Østfold landscape. In the late Middle Ages, Viken Fief became part of Bohuslän.
In Sweden the name Viken still refers to Bohuslän today . In Norway, the term “Viken” has been revived in modern (political-bureaucratic) linguistic usage since the turn of the millennium as a name for the area around the Oslofjord with very different definitions. a. the inner Oslofjord with the municipalities of Asker , Bærum and Oslo. This (new) use of the name Viken has been criticized as unhistorical and unrelated to the historical Viken region.
In terms of linguistic history, there may be a connection to the word Viking as a "person from Viken".
See also
- List of Norwegian landscapes
- Vik (disambiguation)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Lars Roede , " Viken og Innlandet: Amatørmessige logoer og uhistoriske navn ", Aftenposten , January 11, 2020