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  2. The Viking Way (book) - Wikipedia

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    The Viking Way: Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia is an archaeological study of old Norse religion in Late Iron Age-Scandinavia. It was written by the English archaeologist Neil Price, then a professor at the University of Aberdeen, and first published by the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University in ...

  3. Vikings in Iberia - Wikipedia

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    A street plate in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, with Siglas poveiras (describing names of local families), supposedly related to Scandinavian Bomärken. [6]In medieval Latin sources about Iberia, the Vikings are usually referred to as normanni ('northmen') and gens normannorum or gens nordomannorum ('race of the northmen'), along with forms in l- like lordomanni apparently reflecting nasal ...

  4. Neil Price (archaeologist) - Wikipedia

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    The Viking Way: Religion and War in the Later Iron Age of Scandinavia, 2nd edition: 2017 Oxbow Books (Oxford) 978-1-84217-260-5 The Vikings: 2016 Routledge (London & New York) 978-0-41534-349-7 Odin's Whisper: Death and the Vikings: 2016 Reaktion Books (London) 978-1-78023-290-4 Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings: 2020

  5. Vikings - Wikipedia

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    In the Middle Ages, viking came to refer to Scandinavian pirates or raiders. [29] [30] [31] The earliest reference to wicing in English sources is from the Épinal-Erfurt glossary (c. 700), about 93 years before the first known attack by Viking raiders in England. The glossary lists the Latin translation for wicing as piraticum 'pirate'.

  6. Varangians - Wikipedia

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    The Varangians (/ v ə ˈ r æ n dʒ i ə n z / və-RAN-jee-ənz; Old Norse: Væringjar; Medieval Greek: Βάραγγοι, romanized: Várangoi; Old East Slavic: варяже, romanized: varyazhe, or варяги, varyagi) [1] [2] were Viking [3] conquerors, traders and settlers, mostly from present-day Sweden, [4] [5] [6] who settled in the territories of present-day Belarus, Russia and ...

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  8. Treaty of Wedmore - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of Wedmore [a] is a 9th century agreement between King Alfred the Great of Wessex and the Viking king, Guthrum the Old.The only contemporary reference to the treaty is that of a Welsh monk, Asser, in his biography of Alfred, known as Vita Ælfredi regis Angul Saxonum, or "The Life of King Alfred", in which Asser describes how after Guthrum's defeat at the Battle of Edington ...

  9. List of wars involving Norway - Wikipedia

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    Norse Vikings: Britons of Strathclyde: Viking victory. A fleet of 200 ships transported prisoners to Dublin. Battle of Thimeon (880) Norse Vikings: West Francia: Defeat. Viking Defeat; Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu (881) Norse Vikings: West Francia: Defeat. 9000 Vikings slain; Vikings starts Raiding Lotharingia; Siege of Paris (885–886) Norse ...