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The Vinland map first came to light in 1957 (three years before the discovery of the Norse site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland in 1960), bound in a slim volume with a short medieval text called the Hystoria Tartarorum (usually called in English the Tartar Relation), and was unsuccessfully offered to the British Museum by London book dealer Irving Davis on behalf of a Spanish-Italian ...
Norse Vikings: Picts Dál Riata: Norwegian Viking victory: Siege of Paris (845) Norse Vikings: Francia: Viking victory. Viking plunder of Paris; Viking raid on Nekor [1] [2] [3] (ca. 859) Norse Vikings: Kingdom of Nekor: Viking victory. Vikings occupied Nekor for 8 days. Great Heathen Army's invasion of England (865–878) Norse Vikings Norse ...
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Chronicles document attacks by the Novgorodians and the Karelians on Finnmark and northern Norway as early as 1271, and continuing well into the 14th century. [14] The official border between the Novgorod lands and the lands of Sweden and Norway was established by the Treaty of Nöteborg on 12 August 1323. [ 14 ]
Depiction of Vikings sailing a longship from c. 1100 [1]. 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 from various flanks: they resisted full incorporation into the Frankish Carolingian Empire yet they also had to repel an emerging threat of the new duchy of Normandy on their eastern ...
The Battle of Largs (2 October 1263) was a battle between the kingdoms of Norway and Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde near Largs, Scotland.The conflict formed part of the Norwegian expedition against Scotland in 1263, in which Haakon Haakonsson, King of Norway attempted to reassert Norwegian sovereignty over the western seaboard of Scotland. [1]
Bjarmaland (also spelled Bjarmland and Bjarmia) [a] was a territory mentioned in Norse sagas from the Viking Age and in geographical accounts until the 16th century. The term is usually understood to have referred to the southern shores of the White Sea and to the basin of the Northern Dvina River ( Vienanjoki in Finnish) as well as, presumably ...
Statue of Pier Gerlofs Donia, the Frisian folk hero and freedom fighter. Frisia is a small region in the north of the modern day country known as the Netherlands.In the Iron Age, the ancestors of the modern Frisians first migrated south out of modern day Scandinavia to the south west where they began to settle along the coast.