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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...
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    The Viking Age (793–1066 CE) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest...
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    Hedeby. This secured Viking supremacy in the Baltic Sea, which continued throughout the Viking Age. Because of the expansion of the Vikings across Europe, a...
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  • Viking (formerly Viking Cruises) is a cruise line providing river, ocean, and expedition cruises. Its operating headquarters are in Basel, Switzerland...
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  • the Viking expansions into the British Isles. Players control Eivor Varinsdottir, a Viking raider who, while attempting to establish a new Viking clan...
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    plough. Barbarian migration stabilized in much of Europe, although the Viking expansion greatly affected Northern Europe. Starting in the 2nd century, various...
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  • The Viking raid on Išbīliya, then part of the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba, took place in 844. After raiding the coasts of what are now Spain and Portugal...
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    Danelaw (redirect from Viking Britain)
    2001, pp. 138–139 "The Viking expansion". hgo.se. Archived from the original on 12 May 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2018. "The Viking Raid on Lindisfarne"....
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    Siege of Paris (845) (category Viking Age in France)
    The siege of Paris of 845 was the culmination of a Viking invasion of West Francia. The Viking forces were led by a Norse chieftain named "Reginherus"...
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    Viking activity in the British Isles occurred during the Early Middle Ages, the 8th to the 11th centuries CE, when Scandinavians travelled to the British...
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    characterized as the Early Middle Ages in Europe, and marked by the Viking expansion in the west, and the continuation of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern...
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    division. Founded in 1960 as an expansion team, the team began play the following year. They are named after the Vikings of medieval Scandinavia, reflecting...
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  • Assassin's Creed Odyssey (category Video games with expansion packs)
    features a historical setting in medieval England and Norway during the Viking expansion across Europe and which concludes Layla's story arc. Assassin's Creed...
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    produced results that can be used to check individual reports. The Viking expansion in the Early Middle Ages had its roots in two main social characteristics...
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    Longship (redirect from Viking longship)
    platform for infantry warfare. During the ninth-century peak of the Viking expansion, large fleets set out to attack the degrading Frankish empire by attacking...
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    notions of Viking expansion history also to promote the superiority of white people (as well as to oppose the Catholic Church). Such misuse of Viking history...
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  • areas reached by the Viking expansion, especially in the British Isles. Most of these were on the Isle of Man where 31 from the Viking era have been found...
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  • The early history of the islands is dominated by the influence of the Vikings. From the 14th century, it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Scotland...
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    Knarr (category Viking ships)
    is a type of Norse merchant ship used by the Vikings for long sea voyages and during the Viking expansion. The knarr was a cargo ship; the hull was wider...
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    conquered by Vikings and the last to be relinquished by the Norwegian crown. Thorfinn Sigurdsson's rule in the 11th century included expansion well into...
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    Danes (section Viking Age)
    Harold to convert to Christianity. The following years saw the Danish Viking expansion, which incorporated Norway and England into the Danish North Sea Empire...
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  • Nation Introducing Archaeology Viking Expansion Westwards The Clacken and the Slate (The Edinburgh Academy, 1824 – 1974) Viking Hammer of the North BC: The...
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  • Asselt (882) – Viking expansion Siege of Euripos (883) – Arab–Byzantine Wars Siege of Rochester (885) Siege of Paris (885–886) – Viking expansion Siege of Buttington...
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    Magnusson, Magnus (1976)Viking, Hammer of the North (Putnam) Magnus Magnusson ISBN 978-0-399-11744-2 Magnusson, Magnus (1979) Viking expansion westwards (Bodley...
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    multiple hostile forces, the Magyars (Hungarians) from the east, the Viking expansion from the north, and the Arabs from the south. The Hungarians took possession...
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    company began a geographic expansion. Irwin Helford became chairman in 1984, and his photo appeared on the cover of Viking catalogues for many years.[3]...
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  • the Viking expansion to Iceland and Greenland. It follows their journey and acceptance into the English royal court, Merewyn's kidnapping by Vikings, Rumon's...
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    reign. He is succeeded by his son Ordoño I, as ruler of Asturias. Danish Viking raiders, led by King Rorik, conquer Dorestad and Utrecht (modern-day Netherlands)...
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  • obscured by the lexical influence of Old Norse as a consequence of Viking expansion from the 9th till the 11th century, and Norman French, as a consequence...
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    phase of the migrations saw the coming of the Hungarian Magyars. The Viking expansion out of Scandinavia into southern and eastern Europe, Iceland, the British...
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