Here’s a list of ten interesting historical facts on the Norsemen and the Viking Age: 10. By far the most well known misconception about the Norsemen is that they are many times mistaken for the name of their occupation, namely for the term ‘Viking’. Although the term ‘Viking’ denotes in Old Norse the occupation of…
The Battle of Clontarf represented a turning point in Irish history as it was the day when the Norsemen were defeated by the Irish High King Brian Boru, as such putting an end to the Norse domination of Ireland. The battle took place on 23 April 1014 at Clontarf, near present-day Dublin, on the east…
The common date given for the commencement of the Viking Age슠is 793, when the Catholic abbey of Lindisfarne that was situated on an island less than one mile off the north-eastern coast of England (pertaining at the time to the early medieval Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria) was plundered by a group of Norsemen슠stemming from Hordaland,…
Earliest human activity in Greenland is thought to have commenced from 2,500 BC when it was first settled by various migratory tribes, in stark contrast to the Viking Age which most historians agreed to have commenced in the late 8th century. Nonetheless, given the fact that life conditions on this large island have always been…
Origins: Who Actually Were The Norsemen? Since ancient times, Scandinavia was the homeland of the Norsemen. The Norsemen (also referred to in many medieval texts as Northmen, ‘Nordmanni’, or ‘Dani’; nowadays broadly known as ‘Vikings’) were a congregation of Germanic tribes that initially lived in Northern Europe, more specifically in the areas corresponding to the…
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