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The ‘Vikings’ were seafaring raiders and traders from Scandinavia. The period known as the Viking Age lasted from AD 700 until 1100. ‘Viking’ was the name given to the seafarers from Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden. During the Viking age many Vikings travelled to other countries, such as Britain and Ireland.
Vikings were the ancestors to many significant groups throughout history. The Normans from France who defeated the Anglo-Saxons in the Battle of Hastings were actually descendants of Vikings! Vikings settled around more places than just Britain – they went to Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, France, and Spain too.
Find out who the Vikings were and where they settled in Britain. This KS2 history guide also explains where the Vikings came from and how they invaded Britain.
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.
11 de abr. de 2024 · A History of Vikings Invasions of England, Scotland, Ireland. Danish Vikings invaded England first in 789 AD at the Isle of Portland. Then a band of Norse Vikings initiate the Viking Age in 793 AD by attacking a church in Northumbria, England. At the beginning, the Vikings were specifically targeting monasteries.
23 de oct. de 2023 · The Viking people were never defeated, and they were not conquered. However, they were slowed down and repelled, which Forced them to change their tactics and eventually their whole way of life. The times changed and so too did the Vikings. Being explorers by nature, they engaged with and interacted with countless cultures.
22 de ene. de 2020 · The Vikings were a Scandinavian people highly active in Europe between the ninth and eleventh centuries as raiders, traders, and settlers. A mixture of population pressure and the ease with which they could raid/settle is commonly cited as the reasons why they left their homeland, the regions we now call Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
