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The Vikings managed it, so in Secrets of the Ancients, an international crew decided to give it a go in a replica Viking... Language: English; Views: 847; Length: 49:09; Rating: Viking and other raider-traders. Vikings. Vikings - Google Search - Pale Moon. The Seventy Mile Bush – Scandinavians – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand - Pale Moon. Northmen (Vikings) - Pale Moon. The Scandinavians who, in the ninth and tenth centuries, first ravaged the coasts of Western Europe and its islands and then turned from raiding into settlers.
This article will be confined to the history of their exodus. Tacitus refers to the "Suiones" (Germ., xliv, xlv) living beyond the Baltic as rich in arms and ships and men . But, except for the chance appearance of a small Viking fleet in the Meuse early in the sixth century, nothing more is heard of the Scandinavians until the end of the eighth century, when the forerunners of the exodus appeared as raiders off the English and Scottish coasts. In their broad outlines the political divisions of Scandinavia were much as they are at the present day, except that the Swedes were confined to a narrower territory. In their social condition and religion they were not unlike the Angles and Saxons of the sixth century.