According to relatively recent historical and archaeological/DNA research, it seems that the Norse might have reached the shores of the Madeira and Azores archipelagos (which are both part of Portugal) well before the firmly established Portuguese colonisers! According to several mouse bones found in Madeira which were dated to either the 10th or 11th centuries…
The Isle of Man (also simplu known as Mann) is a relatively small island situated in the Irish Sea, between Ireland and Britain. The Isle of Man was inhabited since ancient times. In the beginning of the 7th century, the Isle of Man was conquered by Edwin of Northumbria (initially the King of the early…
The Norwegian Vikings were by far the most skilled and resilient navigators of all the Vikings during the renowned Viking Age (a sub-epoch or sub-era of the lengthier Early Middle Ages), travelling far and wide distances in their imposing longships over the North Atlantic Ocean on perilous yet legendary voyages of exploration, trade, and conquest…
The Norwegian colonial empire is a syntagm which refers to the colonial empire which Norway had back during the Early Middle Ages (more specifically during the renowned Viking Age, a sub-epoch or sub-era of the Early Middle Ages) and still kept during the High Middle Ages (and, to a considerable extent, up until 1814) across…
The Anglo-Saxons were an ethnic, linguistic, and cultural mixture of three Germanic peoples (i.e. the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, according to medieval chronicler Saint Bede the Venerable) which migrated from what is now Denmark (more specifically the Jutland peninsula) and northern Germany (more specifically the states of Schleswig-Holstein, most notably the Angeln peninsula,…
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