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In Viking Raids, slaves and captives were usually of great importance for both the monetary and labor value. In addition to being bought and sold slaves could be used to pay off debts, [4]: 106 and were often used as human sacrifices in religious ceremonies. A slave's price depend on their skills, age, health, and looks. [4]: 106
The second book of Henry Treece's Viking Trilogy, The Road to Miklagard, published in the late 1950s describes a Viking voyage through the Mediterranean to Constantinople, where the main characters are taken as slaves and later become members of the Varangian Guards. They eventually make their way back to their home village via the trade route.
The treasure consists of 16 pendants, a brooch, and a neck ring, all of gold weighing a total of 600 grams (1.3 lb). It is the largest discovery of Viking gold artifacts in Germany. The jewelry dates from the late Viking Age, c. 10th century. The pendants include both Norse pagan and Christian symbols – Thor's hammer of Mjölnir and the cross.
It was discovered on 15 May 1840 on the southern bank of a bend of the River Ribble, in an area called Cuerdale near Preston, Lancashire, England. The Cuerdale Hoard is one of the largest Viking silver hoards ever found, four times larger than its nearest rival in Britain or Ireland, according to Richard Hall. [1]
The Viking slave route was redirected in the 9th-century, and until the 11th-century the Vikings trafficked European slaves from the Baltic Sea via Ladoga, Novgorod and the Msta river via the Route from the Varangians to the Greeks to the Byzantine Empire via the Black Sea slave trade, or to the Abbasid Caliphate via the Caspian Sea (and the ...
Viking has welcomed its newest ocean cruise vessel to the small ship brand’s fleet. At 784 feet, the ship has 499 cabins that can host 998 passengers, which is a slightly larger capacity than ...
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.
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