Monday, 21 September 2015

What are some primary sources on the Vikings?

The word
Viking refers to Norse merchants, raiders, and societies that flourished between the 8th and
11th centuries (the Viking Age). As such, the modern nations of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and
Iceland have their origins in the Viking Age, and other areas of Europe that were controlled or
contacted by the Norse during this time hold varying degrees of Viking influence. Unfortunately,
the Vikings did not have a strong written tradition, and much literary information about them
comes from later Norse societies or from other Europeans who studied them or were impacted by
them.

Runestones

When they
did write, the Vikings wrote in runes, a type of alphabet related to but distinct from the Latin
alphabet. Most extant runestones can be dated to the...



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