Hedeby
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English
Etymology
From Danish Hedeby, from Old Norse Heiða-býr (literally “heath-settlement”).
Proper noun
Hedeby
- (historical) An important Danish Viking Age (8th to the 11th centuries) trading settlement.
- 2004, Kirsten Wolf, Daily Life of the Vikings, 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).
