Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Birka and Hovgården' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Based on the coin finds, the city seems to have silenced around 960. | WIKI |
| Being in great difficulty they fled to a neighbouring city (ad civitatem, quxc3xa6 iuxta erat, confugerunt) and began to promise and offer to their godsxe2x80x94But inasmuch as the city was not strong and there were few to offer resistance, they sent messengers to the Danes and asked for friendship and alliance. | WIKI |
| xe2x80x94Hergeir, the faithful servant of the Lord, was angry with them and said, "They will lead away your wives and sons as captives, they will burn our city (urbs) and town (vicus)"[11] and will destroy you with the sword (Chapter XIX) | WIKI |
| As the neighbouring "city" is not mentioned in any other context than during the Danish attack as a place where people took refuge, it probably meant a nearby fortress. | WIKI |
| In Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum (Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church),[13] Adam of Bremen mentions Birka many times, and the book is the main source of information on the city. | WIKI |
| Birca is described as an existing city in the original version, but then as destroyed in Scholia 138. | WIKI |
| For this city he ordained, as the first among our people, the abbot Hiltin, whom he wanted to call John. | WIKI |
| After having consistently described Birka as an existing city, Scholia 138 of IV 29 describes Birka's sudden demise. | WIKI |
| During his journey he seized the opportunity to make a detour to Birka, which is now reduced to loneliness so that one can hardly find vestiges of the city; therefore impossible to come upon the tomb of the holy Archbishop Unni. | WIKI |
| The remark does not make it clear if Adalvard found the city destroyed or if that had happened after his visit and the later remark was just to warn the future pilgrims not to go there anymore in vain. | WIKI |