Iron Age Scandinavia



The Iron Age in Scandinavia and Northern Europe begins around 500 BC with the Jastorf culture, and is taken to last until ca. AD 800 and the beginning Viking Age. It succeeds the Nordic Bronze Age with the introduction of ferrous metallurgy by contact with the Hallstatt D/La Tène cultures.


 * Pre-Roman Iron Age (5th to 1st centuries BC)
 * Roman Iron Age (1st to 4th centuries AD)
 * Germanic Iron Age (5th to 8th centuries AD)
 * Vendel era

The Northern European Iron Age is the locus of Proto-Germanic culture, in its later stage differentiating into Proto-Norse (in Scandinavia), and West Germanic (Ingvaeonic, Irminonic, Istvaeonic) in northern Germany.