The Vikings
The Viking age
The Viking Age is the name of the period between 750 and 1100 AD in Scandinavia. During this time Scandinavian traders and warriors traded and explored - and sometimes raided - most parts of Europe, south-western Asia, northern Africa and even north-eastern North America. The raid of Lindisfarne year 793 AD and the battle of Hastings in 1066 are often used as the starting and ending points of the era.
Where
Geographically, a "Viking Age" may be assigned not only to the Scandinavian lands (modern Denmark, and southern Norway and Sweden and parts of Finland), but also to territories under North Germanic dominance, mainly the Danelaw, Scotland, the Isle of Man and Ireland. Viking navigators opened the road to new lands to the north and to the west, resulting in the colonization of Island, Grönland, Shetland, Orkney and the Farö Islands. The Vikings were actually just a small minority of the population in Northern Europe. Most people there were farmers or farmers' thralls (slave).
The word Viking might come from the Old Norse word, vík, meaning "bay," "creek," or "inlet," Another explanation is that the term comes from old English, wíc "trading city" (Latin vicus, "village"). The medieval Scandinavian population, in general, is more properly referred to as Norse.
Facts
Some facts that might ruin some myth of yours:
The vikings did not have horns on their helmets, during Bronze Age horned helmet might have been used as a ceremonial tool.
Human skulls was not used as drinking vessels
The Old Norse Gods were not regarded as immortal.
Christian monks and other clergy was first to write down the Norse religion.
The Vikings living in England had a particular
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