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 … 展开

Viking Age
The Viking Age in Scandinavian history is taken to have been the period from the earliest recorded raids by Norsemen in 793 until the 展开

Knowledge about the arms and armour of the Viking age is based on archaeological finds, pictorial representation, and to some extent on the accounts in the Norse sagas and Norse laws recorded … 展开

Medieval perceptions
In England the Viking Age began dramatically on 8 June 793 when Norsemen destroyed the 展开

The essential three elements of the word "Viking" are: the original meaning and derivation or etymology; its medieval usage; and its current … 展开

A variety of sources illuminate the culture, activities, and beliefs of the Vikings. Although they were generally a non-literate culture that produced no literary legacy, they had an … 展开

The Vikings established and engaged in extensive trading networks throughout the known world and had a profound influence on the economic development of Europe and Scandinavia.
Other than in such trading centres as Ribe Hedeby in … 展开