page_title: Viken (region)
hierarchical_section_title: Viken (region)
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Kart over Viken i middelalderen.
context_page_description: Viken, or Vika, was the historical name during the Viking Age and the High Middle Ages for an area of Scandinavia that originally surrounded the Oslofjord and included the coast of Bohuslän. Its definition changed over time, and from the middle ages Viken only included Bohuslän.
  Viking Age-era Viken was defined as the strait running between Norway and the southwest coast of Sweden and the Jutland peninsula of Denmark. It is located in modern southeastern Norway and the southwestern Swedish province of Bohuslän. During the Viking Age Viken was the northernmost Danish province. Control over Viken shifted between Danish and Norwegian kings in the middle ages, and Denmark continued to claim Viken until 1241.
  Viken is also the name chosen for a future administrative region consisting of a merger of the counties of Akershus, Buskerud, and Østfold.
context_section_description: Viken (Old Norse: Vík or Víkin), or Vika, was the historical name during the Viking Age and the High Middle Ages for an area of Scandinavia that originally surrounded the Oslofjord and included the coast of Bohuslän. Its definition changed over time, and from the middle ages Viken only included Bohuslän.
  Viking Age-era Viken was defined as the strait running between Norway and the southwest coast of Sweden and the Jutland peninsula of Denmark. It is located in modern southeastern Norway and the southwestern Swedish province of Bohuslän. During the Viking Age Viken was the northernmost Danish province. Control over Viken shifted between Danish and Norwegian kings in the middle ages, and Denmark continued to claim Viken until 1241.
  Viken is also the name chosen for a future administrative region consisting of a merger of the counties of Akershus, Buskerud, and Østfold.
caption: Map of Viken in the Middle Ages (in red) and during the Viking Age (in blue)
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