Destination Viking - Saga Lands
Scotland

Project title
Destination Viking - Saga Lands
Project Duration
2002 - 2005
Total project grant
€600,000
Number of partners in project
18
Lead partners
Institute of Regional Development (Iceland)
Partners
Bláskógabyggd Municipality
Institute of Prehistoric Technology
Narsaq Museum
Borgarfjörður Cultural Centre
Dalabyggð Municipality
Gene Fornby Foundation
Grettistak ses
Lofotr AS
Narsaq Tourist Office
National Museum of the Faroe Islands
Orkney Islands Council
Reykjanes marketing and development agency
Shetland Amenity Trust
The Avaldsnes Project, Karmoy Kommune
The Faroe Islands Tourist Board
Troms County Municipality, County Department of Cultural Affairs
Westfjords Development Agency
EU Funding Opportunity
Interreg V-B: Transnational co-operationDestination Viking Sagalands aimed to re-establish links between countries by reviving the tradition of saga storytelling.
The project brought together partners in Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland, Faeroe Islands, Orkney, Shetland, the Isle of Man, Northern Norway and Northern Sweden to develop a borderless tourism destination focusing on the Viking world.
Interreg funding was used to create a number of Saga Trails that encouraged the public to connect with regional Viking history. The project encouraged community participation, promoted social inclusion and aimed to add value to cultural landscape management. The Sagalands project published a saga map and a collection of traditional oral stories from the countries participating in the project.
The project was taken forward by the Destination Viking Association, including the management and promotion of the Viking Cultural Route and the maintenance of social media and web-based applications.
Related projects include:
- Destination Viking Living History (2002 – 2004)
- Follow the Vikings (2015 – 2019)