| space | The Loom Of Fate begins in Banjo's hometown, an average suburban city in northern California.
This page helps you learn more about some of the places Banjo and Desmond visit after traveling back to
the Viking Age by providing links to a few of the many web sites about these locations.
An island nation in the north Atlantic, settled by Vikings in 874, about 100
years before the time described in this story.
A small market town on in island in Lake Mälaren, Sweden, established in the middle of the 8th century
and abandoned about 200 years later.
An important Danish port during the Viking Age, Hedeby is now located on Germany's northern border.
Volund's cave is based on Ballova, a cave where iron was worked in the Thidrekssaga. This cave is thought by
some to be a cave in Balve, Germany. To get there, Banjo and Desmond travel with Ketil's Vikings down the Rhine
river to the Duna, a small tributary just north of present-day Cologne, Germany. They go northeast up the Duna,
then travel on land to Ballova.
The home of the gods in Norse mythology.
The cold, misty world of the dead. Home of Hel, queen of the damned.
The kingdom of the giants, far to the north of the middle-earth home of men.
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