Case file · Folklore / legend
Vineta, the sunken city
Adam of Bremen wrote around 1075 of 'Jumne', a great trading city on the Baltic; later legend made it Vineta, sunk for its people's pride, whose bells ring under the sea off Usedom.
1075 CE · 54.05, 14.00 · status: legend
The sceptical view
Historians link Jumne to the real Viking town of Wolin; underwater searches found only natural stones.