Christina here. Earlier this summer I visited the town of Uppsala in Sweden, a place I’d never been before. It is home to the oldest university of that country founded in 1477, but it’s been around for a lot longer than that. In fact, it used to be an extremely important place and the seat of kings, especially during what we call the Dark Ages. On the outskirts of Uppsala there are three enormous grave mounds from that era called the Royal Mounds, as well as a museum. Seeing these made me ask the question above – how dark were the Dark Ages really?
The answer IMO is – they weren’t dark at all!
