Norse settlers
Medieval Nordic immigrants
Norse settlers were Scandinavian people—primarily from Norway, Denmark, and Sweden—who established permanent communities outside their homelands during the Viking Age (roughly 793–1066 CE).
They colonized Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and parts of Britain, Ireland, and Normandy.
Unlike Viking raiders who came to plunder, settlers came to farm and stay: Norse settlers in Iceland established the world's oldest parliament.
- fishing industriesCommercial aquatic harvesting enterprises
- whale huntingPursuit of sea giants
- fur tradingCommerce in animal skins
- Shetland IslandsSubarctic Scottish archipelago
- Viking AgeScandinavian maritime expansion era
longships · sea voyage · iron forging · farming techniques · mead halls · rune stones · shieldmaidens · ship burials · Vinland · land claims · textile production · livestock herding · barter systems · pagan rituals · Thing assemblies · berserkers · tribal warfare · blood feud
- VikingsViking, longships, longship, raiding, raiders
- Viking AgeVikings, longships, raiders, Odin, Thor
- Norse HistoryVikings, longships, rune stones, sagas, Thor
- Viking explorationLeif Erikson, Erik the Red, Vinland, longships, Iceland
- Greenland historyErik the Red, Leif Erikson, home rule, self-government, Nuuk
- GreenlandNuuk, tundra, fjords, glaciers, Inuit
Norse settlersindigenous peoples
Original inhabitants of lands
original inhabitants · First Nations · Picts · Inuit · Native Americans
Norse settlersViking raiders
Medieval Scandinavian coastal attackers
raiders · plunderers · marauders · pillagers · displaced populations
Norse, Norseman, Norsemen, settler, settlers, settle, settled, settling, settlement