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2. Vikings - Wikipedia

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   Until recently, the history of the Viking Age was largely based on Icelandic sagas, the history of the Danes written by Saxo Grammaticus, the Primary Chronicle, and Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib. Few scholars still accept these texts as reliable sources, as historians now rely more on archaeology and numismatics , disciplines that have made valuable ...

3. Viking Age - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 December 2024. 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 ...

4. Viking Age arms and armour - Wikipedia

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   Viking landing at Dublin, 841, by James Ward (1851-1924). Knowledge about military technology of the Viking Age (late 8th to mid-11th century Europe) is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial representations, and to some extent on the accounts in the Norse sagas and laws recorded in the 12th–14th centuries.

5. 50 "exceptionally well-preserved" Viking skeletons unearthed ...

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   The Viking burial ground, used during the 9th and 10th centuries, was discovered on the southern outskirts of the village of Åsum. 50 "exceptionally well-preserved" Viking skeletons unearthed in ...

6. Scandinavian York - Wikipedia

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   Scandinavian York or Viking [a] York (Old Norse: Jórvík) is a term used by historians for what is now Yorkshire [b] during the period of Scandinavian domination from late 9th century until it was annexed and integrated into England after the Norman Conquest; in particular, it is used to refer to York, the city controlled by these kings and earls.

7. Archaeologists unearth more than 50 Viking skeletons at huge ...

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   Archaeologists in Denmark have unearthed more than 50 “exceptionally well preserved” skeletons in a large Viking-era burial ground in the east of the country.. A team from Museum Odense have ...

8. Viking activity in the British Isles - Wikipedia

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   The Viking king of Northumbria, Halfdan Ragnarrson (Old English: Healfdene)—one of the leaders of the Viking Great Army (known to the Anglo-Saxons as the Great Heathen Army)—surrendered his lands to a second wave of Viking invaders in 876. In the next four years, Vikings gained further land in the kingdoms of Mercia and East Anglia as well ...

9. Viking expansion - Wikipedia

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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 most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.