I Love Medieval History
...especially The Vikings!
Vikings were seafaring people
originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark,
Norway, and Sweden),who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries
raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe. They
also voyaged as far as the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East,
Greenland, and Vinland (present-day Newfoundland in Canada, North
America).
In their countries of origin, and some of the countries they raided and
settled in, this period is popularly known as the Viking Age, and the
term
Viking also commonly includes the inhabitants of the
Scandinavian homelands as a whole. The Vikings had a profound impact on
the early medieval history of northern and Eastern Europe, including the
political and social development of England (and the English language)
and parts of France, and established the embryo of Russia in Kievan
Rus'.
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