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  2. Holmgang - Wikipedia

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    The story's two protagonists – feuding spacemen of the future who are of distant Scandinavian origin and one of whom (the villain) is historically conscious – decide to revive this Viking tradition, resorting to a deadly holmgang on a lonely asteroid instead of a sea island, in order to settle their irreconcilable differences over a tangled ...

  3. Medieval Scandinavian law - Wikipedia

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    Medieval Scandinavian law, also called North Germanic law, [1] [2] [3] was a subset of Germanic law practiced by North Germanic peoples. It was originally memorized by lawspeakers , but after the end of the Viking Age they were committed to writing, mostly by Christian monks after the Christianization of Scandinavia .

  4. Viking Age - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 February 2025. Period of European history (about 800–1050) Viking Age picture stone, Gotland, Sweden. Part of a series on Scandinavia Countries Denmark Finland Iceland Norway Sweden History History by country Åland Denmark Faroe Islands Finland Greenland Iceland Norway Scotland Sweden Chronological ...

  5. Kingdom of Sweden (800–1521) - Wikipedia

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    Viking expeditions (blue): Norse people, including Swedes, engaged in far-reaching voyages and raids. Swedish Vikings predominantly traveled eastward, into Russia. The Swedes took part in many Western raids against England alongside the Danes and Norwegians of which many successfully acquired Danegeld as seen on the England Runestones. The ...

  6. Template:Timeline of the Viking Age - Wikipedia

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  7. Vikings - Wikipedia

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    Vikings under Leif Erikson, heir to Erik the Red, reached North America and set up short-lived settlements in present-day L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada. This expansion occurred during the Medieval Warm Period. [66] Viking expansion into continental Europe was limited. Their realm was bordered by powerful tribes to the south.

  8. Wikipedia:WikiProject Norse history and culture - Wikipedia

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    Olav Tryggvason kåres til Norges konge (1860) by Peter Nicolai Arbo.. The Norse history and culture WikiProject is a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the history, culture, language, and religion of the Norse people, both at home in Scandinavia and in their many overseas colonies through the ages, up to the time of the Kalmar Union in 1397.

  9. Viking Age in the Faroe Islands - Wikipedia

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    The Viking graves on the Faroe Islands deserve special attention, as they allow conclusions to be drawn about burial rites and the cult of the dead. The Vikings buried their dead above ground and aligned the bodies facing west-southwest - east-northeast , with the head pointing in that direction.