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The World of the Vikings
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╨╧рб▒с > ■ D F ■ C ье┴ 5@ Ё┐ 0 |3 bjbj╧2╧2 (T нX нX ╬( н И Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ R R R R 8 К Ц l R ╦ v J L L L L L L $ A R У ║ p Ъ p Ъ Ъ Е Ъ Ъ J J * Ъ Ъ * @W▓╒Т╟ R * J Ы 0 ╦ * M M * о d @ Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ M Ъ * p p The World of the Vikings The Viking age has long been associated with unbridled piracy, when freebooters swarmed out of the northlands in their longships to burn and pillage their way across civilized Europe. Modern scholarship provides evidence this is a gross simplification, and that during this period much progress was achieved in terms of Scandinavian art and craftsmanship, marine technology, exploration, and the development of commerce. It seems the Vikings did as much trading as they did raiding. The title "Viking" encompasses a wide designation of Nordic people; Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians, who lived during a period of brisk Scandinavian expansion in the middle ages, from approximately 800 to 1100 AD. This name may be derived from the old Norse vik(bay or creek). These people came from what is now Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, and had a self-sustaining, agricultural society, where farming and cattle breeding were supplemented...
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