The Viking Age (about 800–1050 CE) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest...
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producing expressions like Viking age, Viking culture, Viking art, Viking religion, Viking ship and so on. The Viking Age in Scandinavian history is taken...
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Knowledge about military technology of the Viking Age (late 8th to mid-11th century Europe) is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial...
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The Viking Age in Estonia was a period in the history of Estonia, part of the Viking Age (793–1066 AD). It was not a unified country at the time, and the...
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Viking Age sword (also Viking sword) or Carolingian sword is the type of sword prevalent in Western and Northern Europe during the Early Middle Ages....
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Assassin's Creed Valhalla (redirect from Discovery Tour: Viking Age)
the game recounts a Viking fantasy story during their expansions into the British Isles. Players control Eivor Varinsdottir, a Viking raider who, while...
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series of long-distance trading routes during the Viking Age (c. 8th Century AD to 11th Century AD). Viking trading centres and trade routes would bring tremendous...
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In Viking Age Scandinavia, boys were legally considered to be adults at age 16. But before they reached adulthood, they had a childhood spent learning...
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Viking ships were marine vessels of unique structure, used in Scandinavia from the Viking Age throughout the Middle Ages. The boat-types were quite varied...
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to end c. AD 800, with the beginning of the Viking Age. The three-age method of Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages was first used for the archaeology of Europe...
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History of Denmark (redirect from Viking Age Denmark)
beginning of the Viking Age in the 9th century, the prehistoric period in Denmark ends. The Danish people were among those known as Vikings, during the 8th–11th...
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Viking Fotballklubb, commonly known as Viking or Viking Stavanger internationally, is a Norwegian professional football club from the city of Stavanger...
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Old Norse religion (redirect from Viking-pagan)
symbolism" to "the simple folk-beliefs of the less sophisticated". During the Viking Age, the Norse likely regarded themselves as a more or less unified entity...
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History of Anglo-Saxon England (redirect from Viking Age England)
and Wessex); their Christianisation during the 7th century; the threat of Viking invasions and Danish settlers; the gradual unification of England under...
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Norse mythology (redirect from Viking mythology)
tales and poems that are presumed to have existed during the Middle Ages, Viking Age, Migration Period, and before. Later sources reaching into the modern...
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of circular fort of a special design, built in Scandinavia during the Viking Age. These fortresses have a strictly circular shape, with roads and gates...
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Odin (section Viking Age to post-Viking Age)
peoples during the Migration Period (4th to 6th centuries CE) and the Viking Age (8th to 11th centuries CE). In the modern period, the rural folklore of...
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afield—particularly in the British Isles and Iceland—during the Viking Age of the 8th-11th centuries. Viking art has many design elements in common with Celtic, Germanic...
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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...
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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...
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Scandinavia (section Viking Age)
parts having long, cold winters. The region became notable during the Viking Age, when Scandinavian peoples participated in large-scale raiding, conquest...
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Vikings is a historical drama television series created and written by Michael Hirst. A co-production between Canada and Ireland, the series originally...
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Danes (tribe) (section Viking Age)
provinces of modern-day southern Sweden, during the Nordic Iron Age and the Viking Age. They founded what became the Kingdom of Denmark. The name of their...
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Thor (section Viking age)
expansions of the Migration Period, to his high popularity during the Viking Age, when, in the face of the process of the Christianization of Scandinavia...
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Spatha (section Viking Age)
and Viking swords of Europe. The spatha remained popular throughout the Migration Period. It evolved into the knightly sword of the High Middle Ages by...
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Týr (section Viking Age and post-Viking Age)
genitive tīwes also appears in the name for Tuesday, tīwesdæg. By the Viking Age, *Tīwaz had developed among the North Germanic peoples into Týr. The god...
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Viking metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by a lyrical and thematic focus on Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the Viking Age. Viking...
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Battle of Roncevaux Pass 782: Bloody Verdict of Verden 793: Viking raid on Lindisfarne; Viking Age begins 796–804: Alcuin initiates the Carolingian Renaissance[dubious...
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Vicky the Viking, known as Wickie und die starken Männer (listen) in Germany and Austria and Chiisana Viking Bikke (小さなバイキング ビッケ) in Japan, is an animated...
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Ragnar Lodbrok (redirect from Ragnar Lodbrok (Vikings))
according to legends, was a Viking hero and a Swedish and Danish king. He is known from Old Norse poetry of the Viking Age, Icelandic sagas, and near-contemporary...
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