The Viking Age (c. 800–c. 1050 ad) was characterised by a widespread rise in maritime mobility and interaction, as is made clear by an increasing range of evidence. However, this evidence provides limited information about the sailors and the sailing voyages that connected and transformed the Viking world. This paper presents an approach to reconstruct Viking Age maritime itineraries through the combined use of experimental and digital methods. This approach is grounded in a series of experimental voyages conducted by the author along the Norwegian coast onboard square-rigged, clinker boats built in the descendant Åfjord tradition. The experimental voyages are used to reconstruct the preferences and requirements of Viking Age sailors, helping to define practice-based criteria for evaluating which natural harbours and anchorages might have been favoured during this period. These criteria are complemented by digital reconstructions of historical topographies accounting for changes in relative sea-level since 800 ad. From this combined evaluation, a selection of four possible Viking Age havens is presented. The characteristics and locations of these havens are discussed in relation to contemporary power centres and later seafaring routes. The results suggest that Viking Age seafaring networks along the Norwegian coast may have been more decentralised than their medieval counterparts, and may have relied on relatively outlying nodes on small islands and headlands. The approach highlights the potential of critically combining experimental and digital methods and aims to promote maritime perspectives as an alternative to conventionally terrestrial academic approaches.

维京时代（约公元 800 年至约 1050 年）的特点是海上流动性和互动的广泛增长，越来越多的证据清楚地表明了这一点。然而，这些证据提供的关于连接和改变维京世界的水手和航海航行的信息有限。本文提出了一种通过结合实验和数字方法重建维京时代海上行程的方法。这种方法以作者沿着挪威海岸进行的一系列实验性航行为基础，这些航行是按照 Åfjord 后代传统建造的方形熟料船。实验性航行用于重建维京时代水手的偏好和要求，有助于定义基于实践的标准，以评估在此期间哪些天然港口和锚地可能受到青睐。这些标准由历史地形的数字重建补充，这些地形考虑了自公元 800 年以来相对海平面的变化。从这项综合评估中，我们选择了四个可能的维京时代避风港。这些避风港的特点和位置与当代权力中心和后来的航海路线进行了讨论。结果表明，挪威海岸沿线的维京时代航海网络可能比中世纪的航海网络更加分散，并且可能依赖于小岛屿和岬角上相对偏远的节点。该方法强调了批判性地结合实验和数字方法的潜力，旨在促进海洋视角作为传统陆地学术方法的替代方案。