Norsemen in the Viking AgeThis history of the Nordic peoples in the period 750-1050 focuses on their homelands and colonies, demonstrating the fluidity and incoherence of the world in which they lived.
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Adam of Bremen Anglo-Saxon archaeology armies Baltic battle Birka Bluetooth burials called Canute Canute's chiefs christian coast cult Danelaw Danes Danish Danish kings de®ned dead Denmark Dublin earls early east eleventh century England English ethnic evidence excavated farms Frankish Germanic ghting gods Gotland graves hall Harald Harald Bluetooth Harald Hardrada Hedeby Iceland inscriptions Irish islands Isles Jarl Jelling Jesch Jutland kingship land Lapps later Lejre lived lord Lund MaÈlardal medieval MESCA military mounds myth names Nordic Norse Norsemen North Northmen Norway Norwegian Odin Olaf Olaf Tryggvason Orkney pagan period place-names poem poets political raids re¯ect Ribe royal rulers rune-stones runes sacri®ce saga Sawyer Saxon Scandinavia Scania settlement ships silver skaldic Snorri social sources St Olave stone surviving Sweden Swedish Sweyn Sweyn Forkbeard tenth century territories thegns thirteenth century trans twelfth century Uppsala verse viking age viking-age warriors women