Viking era
Scandinavian raiding age
The Viking era is the period of Scandinavian expansion from roughly 793 to 1066 CE, marked by Norse seafaring, raiding, trading, and settlement across Europe and beyond.
The era began with the raid on Lindisfarne monastery and conventionally ends with the Norman conquest of England.
Viking-era artifacts, Viking-era longships.
- Varangian GuardByzantine emperor's foreign soldiers
- trading postRemote commerce station
- Skaldic poetryMedieval Scandinavian court verse
- VinlandNorse term for America
- sea raiderNaval attacker, plunderer
Harald Hardrada · rune stone · Faroe Islands · Valkyries · funeral pyre · Icelandic sagas · Norse mythology · raid · Erik the Red · berserker · ship · Thor · plunder · blood eagle · shield wall · jarl · chainmail · mead
- Danish HistoryGerman occupation, Nazi occupation, Copenhagen, Canute, constitutional monarchy
- Viking Denmarklongships, runestones, Jutland, Zealand, Danes
- Bernard CornwellSharpe
historical period
Viking eraPax Romana
Imperial era of stability
modern era · Roman Empire · Renaissance · Age of Enlightenment · Victorian era