Skiringssal (literally: The Bright Room) is a historic region of Norway named in various Viking Age sources, located between the present-day towns of Larvik and Sandefjord, south of the Vestfold county region .
Kaupang, the first known Norwegian trading enclave, was created in Skiringssal in the early ninth century (between 800 and 810), disappearing around 930. The Norwegian merchant and traveler Ohthere of Hålogaland wrote about 890 on Skiringssal (Kaupangen i Skiringssal) during his stay at the court of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex.
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