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    Vikings went so far south that, after briefly being bodyguards for the Byzantine emperor, they attacked the Byzantine city of Constantinople. Vikings...
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    The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis. The Vikings compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member...
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    Brondsted, The Vikings, ed. 2 (Harmondsworth 1965) 265. Callmer, Johan (2008). "Scandinavia and the Continent in the Vikings Age". The Viking World: ch 33...
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  • series, Vikings: Valhalla, written and created by Jeb Stuart for Netflix, premiered on February 25, 2022, concluding on July 11, 2024. Vikings is inspired...
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  • Vikings. Season 1. March–April 2013. History. "The Vikings (Original Television Series Soundtrack)". iTunes. Retrieved 28 December 2017. "VIKINGS: SEASON...
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    Björn Ironside (category Viking Age in France)
    the Bald tried to use another Viking chief, Veland, whose men operated in the Somme region, to attack the Seine Vikings at Oissel. However, this scheme...
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  • television series Vikings premiered on February 18, 2016 on History in Canada. The series broadly follows the exploits of the legendary Viking chieftain Ragnar...
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    Ganelon explores the character of Ragnar, his sons, and Viking raiding culture. The 1958 film The Vikings based on Marshall's novel, in which Ragnar, played...
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    Logan, F. Donald (1983)The Vikings in History (London: Hutchison & Co.) ISBN 0-415-08396-6 Arnold, Martin (2008) Vikings: Culture and Conquest (Hambledon...
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    Siege of Paris (845) (category Battles involving the Vikings)
    response but after the Vikings defeated one division, comprising half of the army, the remaining forces retreated. The Vikings reached Paris at the end...
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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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  • contribution to the idea of Viking metal, most of the songs have as much to do with historical Vikings as the 1958 The Vikings film; that is, the portrayal...
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  • The Last of the Vikings (Italian:L'ultimo dei Vikinghi, French:Le Dernier des Vikings) is a 1961 French-Italian historical film directed by Giacomo Gentilomo...
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    (2013). Medieval Flanders. Routledge. Baldwin I of Flanders Glay, Edward Le (1886). Histoire des comtes de Flandre et des Flamands au moyen âge. Desclée....
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  • conquête romaine à l'arrivée des Vikings [Normandy before the Normans, from the Roman conquest to the arrival of the Vikings] (in French). Rennes: Ouest-France...
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    shores were harassed by the Vikings, who also raided the British Isles and settled there and in Iceland. In 911, the Viking chieftain Rollo (d. c. 931)...
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    raiders, the Vikings first enter recorded history with their attack on the Christian monastic community on Lindisfarne Island in 793. The Vikings initially...
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    took place primarily in the summers, with the Vikings initially wintering in Scandinavia. After 851, Vikings began to stay in the lower Seine valley for...
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    population in comparison to that of their enemies. Vikings, according to Clare Downham in Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland, are "people of Scandinavian...
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    abbey due to Viking invasion, to relocate to Saint Pierre des Fossés with their precious relics of Saint Maurus. Later in the Middle Ages, the relics of...
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    Vikings were active in Brittany during the Middle Ages, even occupying a portion of it for a time. Throughout the 9th century, the Bretons faced threats...
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  • Truso (category Viking Age populated places)
    Truso was a Viking Age port of trade (emporium) set up by the Scandinavians at the banks of the Nogat delta branch of the Vistula River, close to a bay...
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    Norse Words in the Norman Dialect (The Vikings in Normandy) Place names derived from the Old Norse words (The Vikings in Normandy) [1] Populations légales...
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    Histoire et dictionnaire du temps des Lumières (1715–1789) (Paris: Robert Laffont, 1995). Frost, Martin (2008), The age of Enlightenment, archived from...
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    3–49. doi:10.1163/2589465X-00101002. Daus, Ronald (1983). Die Erfindung des Kolonialismus. Wuppertal/Germany: Peter Hammer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-87294-202-9...
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    were rather small and strong in stature. Earth samples proved that the Vikings used slash-and-burn agriculture to cultivate the area and burned down the...
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    Track and Field Championships. The Vikings of Grand View University also compete in intercollegiate athletics in Des Moines. A member of the Heart of America...
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    Siege of Paris (885–886) (category Battles involving the Vikings)
    initial attack. As the siege continued, most of the Vikings left Paris to pillage further upriver. The Vikings made a final unsuccessful attempt to take the...
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    âge et pays de naissance en 2019 - Région d'Île-de-France (11)" (in French). Retrieved 15 February 2023. Institut national de la statistique et des études...
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    Danelaw (redirect from Vikings in England)
    ISBN 0-415-21497-1. Quoted by Richard Hall, Viking Age Archaeology (series Shire Archaeology), 2010:22; Gwyn Jones, A History of the Vikings. Revised ed. Oxford: Oxford...
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