HIST 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Knarr, Jelling Stones, Syncretism
4 Feb 2015
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High-middle ages is the period that feels the most medieval. The last great pagan civilization- the vikings. in english history, the vikings are known as the enemy who pillaged. This group were sea raiders that terrorized monks, but they also were a strong. Terminology and meaning: vikings: bands of scandinavian warriors that set out to pillage and raid western europe. Word itself was originally a verb, not designated to a group of people. The 9th c. raids reached the urban heights. General expansion patterns: norwegians moved into ireland . Around the turn of the 9th c. vikings first made their mark in surrounding areas of. In 1793,aqoua wrote a letter to the bishop, The vikings were not noble, the angles and the saxons were from mainland. The juts and the angles and saxons, the vikings were savage, Early sources came from counts of clerics and the, which outlines the savageness of the vikings.
