Bjæring was a legendary chieftain who, according to local legends, were buried in the Bjærum grave (''Bjærumfunnet'') in
Hægebostad
Hægebostad is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tingvatn. Other villages in Hægebostad include Eiken, Haddeland, and S ...
,
Agder
Agder is a county (''fylke'') and traditional region in the southern part of Norway. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder counties were merged. Since the early 1900s, the term Sørlandet ("south ...
,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
. The grave has been dated to the
Migration Period
The Migration Period was a period in European history marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent settlement of its former territories by various tribes, and the establishment of the post-Roman ...
between AD 200 and 550.
References
Other sources
*Stylegar, Frans-Arne (2007
''Farmers, Mariners, and Lords of Long-ago - Archaeology and Pre-history in the Agder region''(Vest-Agder County Council)
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Tumuli
Legendary Norsemen