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Tango01 | 11 May 2020 1:08 p.m. PST |
"The Anglo-Saxons commonly called them ‘Danes' or ‘heathens'. To the Franks, they were simply ‘the Northmen'. But history knows them as the Vikings, possibly derived from the West Norse word vikingr, meaning ‘one who fights at sea' or viking, ‘warfare at sea'. Perhaps it was merely because many of the original Norse raiders of the British Isles came from Viken, the region west of Oslo Fjord. And no one knows for sure why they began their onslaught. There is, of course, no shortage of theories. Some postulate that the cause was population pressure in the rugged north country of Scandinavia, where arable land was at a premium (about 3 per cent in Norway). Others hypothesize that it was political consolidation that pushed the men from the north to seek their fortune in the south. Then again, perhaps it was simply the lure of portable wealth generated by the increased commerce of the more settled south which motivated these seaborne marauders to come. But, whatever the reason, come they did. In the last years of the eighth century Scandinavian men in their longships, driven by the boreal winds, began raiding the British Isles and the west coast of the Carolingian Empire…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
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