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2 days ago · In 1021, the Vikings achieved the feat of reaching North America—the date of which was not specified until a millennium later. Several things drove this expansion. The Vikings were drawn by the growth of wealthy towns and monasteries overseas and weak kingdoms.
1 day ago · 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, trader...
3 days ago · The Rus ', [a] also known as Russes, [2] [3] were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. [4] . The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norsemen, mainly originating from present-day Sweden, who settled and ruled along the river-routes between the Baltic and the Black Seas from around the 8th to 11th centuries AD.
5 days ago · The 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries. When and where Sweden originated have long been matters of debate. Some historians contend that the cradle of Sweden is located in Västergötland and Östergötland —i.e., in the southwestern and southeastern parts of the country.
16 hours ago · Viking invasions and settlements. Small scattered Viking raids began in the last years of the 8th century; in the 9th century large-scale plundering incursions were made in Britain and in the Frankish empire as well.
5 days ago · The Vikings. The name Viking at first (c. 800) meant a man from the Vik, the huge bay that lies between Cape Lindesnes in Norway and the mouth of the Göta River in Sweden and that has been called Skagerrak since 1500.
3 days ago · Vikings: Valhalla is Netflix’s historical fiction drama and a spinoff of the History Channel’s beloved series Vikings, which ran from March 2013 to December 2020.Valhalla follows a new ...
