Vikings
Vikings(DensanBokmål:vikinger;SwadishanNynorsk:vikingar;Icelandic:víkingar), fraeAuld Norsevíkingr,warNordicseafarers, mainly speakin theAuld Norse leid,wharaiditantraditfrae thairNorthren Europeanhamelands atort wide auries o northren, central an eastren Europe, during the late 8t tae late 11t centuries.[1][2]The term is an aa commonly extendit in modren Scots an othervernacularstae the indwallers o Viking hame commonties during whit haes acome kent as theViking Age.This period o Nordic militar, mercantile an demografic expansion constitutes an important element in the early medievalhistory o Scandinavie,Estonie,theBreetish Isles,France,Kievan Rus'anSicily.[3]
Facilitatit bi advanced seafarin skills, an chairacterised bi thelangship,Viking activities at times an aa extendit intae theMediterraneanlittoral,North Africae,theMiddle EastanCentral Asie.Follaein extendit phases o (primarily sea- or river-borne) sploration, expansion an settlement, Viking (Norse) commonties an polities war established in diverse auries o north-wastren Europe, EuropeanRoushie,the North Atlantic islands an as far as the north-eastren coast oNorth Americae.This period o expansion witnessed the wider dissemination o Norse cultur, while simultaneously introducin strang foreign cultural influences intae Scandinavie itsel, wi profoond developmental implications in baith directions.
Popular, modren conceptions o the Vikings—the term frequently applied casually tae thair modren stryndants an the indwallers o modren Scandinavie—eften strangly differ frae the complex pictur that emerges fraeairchaeologyan historical soorces. A romanticised pictur o Vikings asnoble savagesbegan tae emerge in the 18t century; this developed an acame widely propagatit during the 19t-centuryViking revival.[4][5]Perceived views o the Vikings as alternatively violent, piratical heathens or as intrepid adventurers awe much tae conflictin varieties o the modren Viking meeth that haed taken shape bi the early 20t century. Current popular representations o the Vikings are teepically based on cultural clichés an stereotypes, complicatin modren appreciation o the Viking legacy.
