Hedeby

English

Etymology

From Danish Hedeby, from Old Norse Heiða-býr (literally “heath-settlement”).

Proper noun

Hedeby

1. (historical) An important Danish Viking Age (8th to the 11th centuries) trading settlement.
   • 2004, Kirsten Wolf, Daily Life of the Vikings‎^[1], Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 32:

     Hedeby (the heath-settlement) was Scandinavia's most southerly mercantile center. It is situated at the inner part of the Schlei fjord south of the town Schleswig (by which it was succeeded in the mid-eleventh century when it was destroyed by fire).

Further reading

• Hedeby on Wikipedia.Wikipedia