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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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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Viking (formerly Viking Cruises) is a cruise line providing river, ocean, and expedition cruises. Its operating headquarters are in Basel, Switzerland...
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life, producing expressions like Viking age, Viking culture, Viking art, Viking religion, Viking ship and so on. The Viking Age in Scandinavian history is...
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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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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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Early Middle Ages (section Viking Age)
plough. Barbarian migration stabilized in much of Europe, although the Viking expansion greatly affected Northern Europe. Starting in the 2nd century, various...
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The Viking raid on Išbīliya, then part of the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba, took place in 844. After raiding the coasts of what are now Spain and Portugal...
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Danelaw (redirect from Viking Britain)
2001, pp. 138–139 "The Viking expansion". hgo.se. Archived from the original on 12 May 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2018. "The Viking Raid on Lindisfarne"....
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features a historical setting in medieval England and Norway during the Viking expansion across Europe and which concludes Layla's story arc. Assassin's Creed...
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characterized as the Early Middle Ages in Europe, and marked by the Viking expansion in the west, and the continuation of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern...
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division. Founded in 1960 as an expansion team, the team began play the following year. They are named after the Vikings of medieval Scandinavia, reflecting...
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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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notions of Viking expansion history also to promote the superiority of white people (as well as to oppose the Catholic Church). Such misuse of Viking history...
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Longship (redirect from Viking longship)
platform for infantry warfare. During the ninth-century peak of the Viking expansion, large fleets set out to attack the degrading Frankish empire by attacking...
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areas reached by the Viking expansion, especially in the British Isles. Most of these were on the Isle of Man where 31 from the Viking era have been found...
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Magnusson, Magnus (1976)Viking, Hammer of the North (Putnam) Magnus Magnusson ISBN 978-0-399-11744-2 Magnusson, Magnus (1979) Viking expansion westwards (Bodley...
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Nation Introducing Archaeology Viking Expansion Westwards The Clacken and the Slate (The Edinburgh Academy, 1824 – 1974) Viking Hammer of the North BC: The...
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1961, when the Vikings joined the NFL as an expansion team and were placed in the NFL Western Conference, alongside the Bears. The Vikings' inaugural game...
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invasions of the British Isles including the Roman conquest of Britain, Viking expansion, the Norman Conquest, the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland and the...
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Knarr (category Viking ships)
is a type of Norse merchant ship used by the Vikings for long sea voyages and during the Viking expansion. The knarr was a cargo ship; the hull was wider...
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History of Shetland (section Viking expansion)
The early history of the islands is dominated by the influence of the Vikings. From the 14th century, it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Scotland...
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Asselt (882) – Viking expansion Siege of Euripos (883) – Arab–Byzantine Wars Siege of Rochester (885) Siege of Paris (885–886) – Viking expansion Siege of Buttington...
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Norse settlements in Greenland (redirect from Viking Greenland)
produced results that can be used to check individual reports. The Viking expansion in the Early Middle Ages had its roots in two main social characteristics...
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the Viking expansion to Iceland and Greenland. It follows their journey and acceptance into the English royal court, Merewyn's kidnapping by Vikings, Rumon's...
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Siege of Paris (845) (category Viking Age in France)
The siege of Paris of 845 was the culmination of a Viking invasion of West Francia. The Viking forces were led by a Norse chieftain named "Reginherus"...
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multiple hostile forces, the Magyars (Hungarians) from the east, the Viking expansion from the north, and the Arabs from the south. The Hungarians took possession...
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Qunari’s role within the setting is comparable to that of the historical Viking expansion. Gaider seeded numerous elements of lore all across Thedas during the...
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Danes (section Viking Age)
Harold to convert to Christianity. The following years saw the Danish Viking expansion, which incorporated Norway and England into the Danish North Sea Empire...
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The term "Viking Age" refers to the period roughly from 790s to the late 11th century in Europe, though the Norse raided Scotland's western isles well...
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