From the 9th century onwards people from denmark norway and sweeden were known as the?
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Arh yes, we were vikings :) But the Icelandic people as well..
Interesting homework ;)
They were considered Norse or Danes. Only those who went sea-raiding were considered Vikings. Viking is actually a Norse verb meaning “to raid”. The “firming up” of central governments in that region made raiding ones close neighbors too dangerous. As the economy in these regions was based on limited arable land and fishing, young men had few prospects without wealth to buy land and the social status it conferred.
They would form up in boat crews under a proven war leader. The boats would gather under the banner so some prince or king and they would go a-viking.
Sometimes thet would raid for booty and slaves, Sometimes capture a town and ransom it back.Or they would charge local rulers for the priviledge of not being raided (Danegeld). In some cases, such as Iceland, the Faeroe Islands, Ireland and northern France (and attempts in Greenland and Newfoundland) they colonized and set up their own governments.
Other times they hired themselves out as mercenaries, particularly to the Byzantine Empire.
This period of the Vikings lasted until the late 14th century when advancements in military technology and centralized governments with standing armies made this raiding impractical.
During this time, the power base in Scandinavia shifted to Sweden, which became the power base in the Baltic for several hundred years, contesting with Russia and Prussia for supremacy, ultimately losing out to Russia.
The late 14th???? No way!!
The biggest transformation in Denmark was when king Harald Bluetooth in 960 was christened by the German missionary Poppo and when king Knud II. died in 1035 Denmark lost it’s position as the ‘dominating country’ in Northern Europe which then ended the ‘period of the Vikings’!
@Mariique By late 14th, I was referring to mercenaries rather than raiders. The actual raiding activities died off in the 12th century.
Actually, the Viking Age began in the late 8th century.
And where exactly is sweeden?
@AstroChuck Sweden is that bit between Norway and Finland. @Mariique When Denmark got “out of the business’, it shifted to Norway, Sweden and the Irish-based Norse, but died out over the next few hundred years. Mercenary activity continued for a long time after this.
studying my text to see if I misspelled it somewhere
@stranger_in_a_strange_land
- What are your sources?
– I differ between The Viking Age and the Middle Ages, maybe you don’t?
The Viking Age ended in the 11th century all over Scandinavia – and to my knowledge there is no such thing as a mercenaring Viking…
@Mariique The Viking mercenaries to a large degree propped up the Byzantine Empire. The Nordic mercenaries may not technically be Vikings, since they were not raiding or doing the strandhogg bit. That part pretty much ended around 1200, The Viking Age and Middle Ages overlap based on what you define as the beginning of the Middle Ages. Coronation of Charlemagne? Battle of Hastings? The mercenaries were known as Jomsvikings or warrior-brotherhoods that hired themselves out to the highest bidder rather than raiding. The eastern expansion of Norse power was by warrior-traders who came to be known as Rus, the name Rissia being derived from that. As for the involvement with the Byzantine Empire, they hired themselves to the Empire, the most famous being known as the Varangian Guard and were considered the elite forces of Byzantium.
Reference Sources:
* Bertil Almgren “The Viking” 1975
* Gwyn Jones “A History of the Vikings” 1968
* Magnus Magnusson “Viking Expansion Westwards” 1979
* D.M. Wilson and P.G. Foote “The Vikings and their Origins” 1970
* Ian Heath and Angus McBride “The Vikings” 1985
Badass is what they were.
@Symbeline They certainly were, ever hear of the “Blood Eagle”? Or how they “greased” the ramp when launching a new ship? And you would not want to be a maiden captive of Ivar the Boneless. The whole lore of the Berserkers (or Bearsarkers) is pretty cool though.
Sven and Ollie tribe? Leader, Brett Farve….
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