29/04/2021
How much do you know about Vikings and Viking Age? 🙄
Vikings were seafaring Norse people from southern Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden and Denmark). They pirated, raided, traded and settled throughout Europe from the late 8th to late 11th centuries.
The Viking Age is considered to be the time period from the earliest recorded raid by Norse people in 793 on the Lindisfarne monastery in England until the Norman conquest of England in 1066.
As Vikings were good sailors and navigators, they voyaged as far as North Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and North America. As a matter of fact, the Viking explorer Leiv Eiriksson sailed to the shores of America around the year 1,000. That is 500 years before Christopher Columbus. ⚓
Vikings had their own architecture, art, and laws. They made inscriptions in runes and spoke Old Norse. Although Vikings are mostly known for robbing and pirating, many Vikings lived peacefully as craftsmen, traders, fishermen, and farmers.
The Viking vibes are still strong in Norway. You can visit Viking museums and villages, have tours and learn a lot about Viking history. You can walk around the world's best-preserved Viking vessels in the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. There you can see the sea-going ships called Tune, Oseberg, and Gokstad. 😯
📷 by Berge/Knoff/Natural Light - VisitNorway.com
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