Step Into History
Walk York in AD 950
AI rebuilds Jórvík (York) street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Step Into History · City walk
Viking Jórvík, 950
A compact riverside entrepôt rebuilding itself under Scandinavian rule, where Roman fabric and wooden Viking houses sit side by side. This walk passes timber longhouses and wattle workshops, the Ouse crowded with knarrs, patched Roman walls, bustling markets and smoky interiors of smithies, amber-and-antler shops and a crowded ale-hall.
35 scenes — 23 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of York as it stood in AD 950 (“Scandinavian York”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Naburn Approach
- 2. Skeldergate Landing
- ↳ Skeldergate Boat-builder's Shed · interior
- 3. Ouse Bridge
- 4. King's Staith
- ↳ King's Staith Warehouse · interior
- 5. Micklegate Bar
- ↳ Micklegate Gate Chamber · interior
- 6. Micklegate
- 7. The Shambles
- ↳ Shambles Meat Hall · interior
- 8. Stonegate
- 9. Petergate
- 10. York Minster
- ↳ Minster's Stone Nave · interior
- 11. St. Sampson's
- 12. Coppergate Workshops
- ↳ Timber and Wattle Workshop · interior
- 13. Coppergate Longhouses
- ↳ Coppergate Longhouse Hearth · interior
- 14. Amber and Antler Shop
- ↳ Amber and Antler Bench · interior
- 15. Stonegate Smithy
- ↳ Stonegate Smithy Forge · interior
- 16. Foss Bridge Quay
- 17. Fossgate Market
- ↳ Fossgate Market Stall · interior
- 18. Walmgate Longhouses
- ↳ Walmgate Longhouse Hearth · interior
- 19. Walmgate Bar
- 20. Petergate Ale-hall
- ↳ Petergate Ale-hall · interior
- 21. Bootham Approach
- 22. Bootham Bar
- 23. Roman Walls Rampart