14 DAY TRIAL // It turns out that parking lots in the UK are way more interesting than anyone would ever think. Some time ago, the remains of King Richard III were found under one such urban area in Leicester, England, and now archaeologists say that a Viking parliamentary site has also been discovered under a parking lot in the town of Dingwall, Scotland.
Live Science tells us that, as far as archaeologists can say, this parliamentary site was established back in the 11th century.
Other sites similar to it have thus far been documented from Iceland to Norway to the Shetland Islands, the same source details.
Specialists say that, hundreds of years ago, Norsemen regularly gathered at such sites in order to solve various issues that they might have had with one another in a friendly and diplomatic way. But for their doing so, bloodsheds would have been far more common than they used to be.
Norsemen also met in these locations to discuss and/or enforce laws, and talk politics.
The recently unearthed Viking meeting place is referred to as a “Thing” site by archaeologists. This is because its name in antiquity was most likely “thingvellir,” which translates as “the field of the assembly.”