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  2. Viking activity in the British Isles - Wikipedia

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    Viking activity in the British Isles. Coin of King Cnut. Viking activity in the British Isles occurred during the Early Middle Ages, the 8th to the 11th centuries CE, when Scandinavians travelled to the British Isles to raid, conquer, settle and trade. They are generally referred to as Vikings, [ 1][ 2] but some scholars debate whether the term ...

  3. Viking expansion - Wikipedia

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    Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.

  4. Viking raids in the Rhineland - Wikipedia

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    Raids in the Rhine-Meuse area. In late 881, Vikings, who had overwintered in Flanders, set off on a military expedition to neighbouring lands. They raided numerous villages in the area of the Meuse and razed the towns of Liège, Maastricht and Tongeren to the ground. [11] Hoard from the Viking period.

  5. Viking Age in the Faroe Islands - Wikipedia

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    Everyday life in the Viking Age. On the Faroe Islands, the Norse settlers were poor farmers who created a new, free homeland for themselves. Stamp block from 2005. The Viking Age in the Faroe Islands lasted from Grímur Kamban 's conquest of the country around 825 until the death of Tróndur í Gøtu, the last Viking chieftain on the Faroe ...

  6. Vinland - Wikipedia

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    Vinland, Vineland, [ 2][ 3] or Winland[ 4] ( Old Norse: Vínland hit góða, lit. 'Vinland the Good') was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings. Leif Eriksson landed there around 1000 AD, nearly five centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. [ 5] The name appears in the Vinland Sagas, and describes ...

  7. Childhood in the Viking Age - Wikipedia

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    Viking Age children were often granted freedom and agency to do as they wished, so long as it did not damage the honor of the family. Sons were allowed to choose their own life path-whether they wanted to be a farmer, a warrior, a trader, etc. and daughters usually had a say in who they were to marry, despite marriage largely being a matter of negotiation between families.

  8. Vikings season 4 - Wikipedia

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    The Vikings arrive outside Paris. Erlendur tells Torvi she must kill Bjorn, or he will kill her son; she approaches Bjorn with Erlendur's crossbow, but instead turns and kills Erlendur. Bjorn tells Ragnar that Paris cannot be taken without him. Ragnar replies he does not care about Paris, and that he is here for Rollo.

  9. Siege of Paris (845) - Wikipedia

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    The Vikings arrived in Paris on Easter Sunday, 29 March, [8] entered the city and plundered it. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] During the siege, a plague broke out in their camp. The Norse had been exposed to the Christian religion , and after first praying to the Norse gods, they undertook a fast, acting on the advice of one of their Christian prisoners, and the ...

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