< period design=" font-family:
arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; “>< img border =" 0" data-original-height =" 413 "data-original-width=" 620" height=" 266 "src= "https://everythingviking.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/viking-archeology-jomsvikings-legendary-viking-mercenaries-or-men-of-myth.webp" width= "400" > Who were the Jomsvikings?According to the sagas, the Jomsvikings were a band of Norse warriors
based in Jomsborg, which means ‘Jom Fortress ‘. It was called after its area on the island Jom, somewhere on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in Pomerania( either modern-day Germany or Poland), described as’ Wendland’ in Old Norse sources.The Jomsvikings
were originally from Denmark, and Jomsborg was a sort of Danish colony, that makes sense since the distance between the two is brief by sea, but Vikings from all over Scandinavia and the North Sea eventually signed up with in.The legends agree that Jomsborg was the base of a fearsome Viking army, however
one legend in particular– the Legend of the Jomsvikings( Jómsvíkinga legend)– depicts it as
an extremely selective warrior band which subscribed to a more strict
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