Viking Map Of Europe 800 Ad

The impact of viking raids on europe included a greater scandinavian influence on language in conquered areas.

Viking map of europe 800 ad. The military forces and political forces were not united with each other. The vikings were made up of landowning chieftains and clan heads their retainers freemen and any energetic young clan members who sought. Viking expansion is the process by which norse explorers traders and warriors the latter known in modern scholarship as vikings sailed most of the north atlantic reaching south to north africa and east to russia constantinople and the middle east as looters traders colonists and mercenaries. The viking raids also left a literary legacy of sagas as well as an imprint on the dna of local populations.

Map created by yanko tsvetkov from atlas of prejudice 2. The baltic south shore slavs aka ilmen slavs appeared at around 700 ad but all the rest is fantasy. Vikings under leif erikson the heir to erik the red reached north america and set up a short lived settlement in present day l anse aux meadows newfoundland canada longer lasting and more. Timeline of the viking age.

They are not doing anything there at 800 ad. England was not a unified region. Map of scandinavian petty kingdoms ad 800 this map shows a host of the many petty norwegian and swedish kingdoms in eighth and ninth century scandinavia most of them norwegian arranged along the coastline although penetration into the interior is clearly beginning. They targeted monastries and churches because of the riches that they had.

The viking age started in england when the vikings attacked the lindisfarne monastries. 800 to 1150 exploring the coastlines of europe the british isles and north africa their technologically advanced longships skilled seamanship and military like raiding parties exerted viking influence from russia to greenland and established peripheral contact with the byzantine empire and the shores of north america the presence of norse raiders had. From their northern european homelands in today s norway denmark and sweden they used the norwegian and baltic seas to engage with the world as looters traders colonists and mercenaries. This is because there was some rivalry in the regions.

The closest was oleviste trading quarters at. By professor edward james last updated 2011 03 29. The geographical range of viking exploration between the 9th and 12th centuries ad was amazing. The viking raids a d.

800 1066 ad the first historic recordings of thre viking age was written in the 800th century 793 ce vikings attack lindisfarne monastry. The vikings 800 to 1066. The vikings or norsemen of scandinavia were the dominant sea power in europe from about a d. Even irboska izborsk only appeared during 9 10th century.

The map above is a tongue in cheek look at how the vikings may have viewed the rest of europe in 1000 ad.