Scandinavia History of Scandinavia Refimprove date June 2011 Viking Age is the term for the period in European history , especially Northern European and Scandinavian history , spanning the late 8th to 11th centuries. ref name VN http www.britannica.com eb article 39302 Norway The Viking Age from the Norway article at Encyclop dia Britannica ref ref http www.britannica.com eb article 33869 Denmark The Viking Age from the Denmark article at Encyclop dia Britannica ref ref http www.britannica.com eb article 29850 Sweden The Viking Age from the Sweden article at Encyclop dia Britannica ref Scandinavian Norsemen Norse Viking s explored Europe by its oceans and rivers through trade and warfare. The Vikings also reached Settlement of Iceland Iceland , Norse Greenland Greenland , Norse colonization of the Americas Newfoundland , and Anatolia . Additionally, there is evidence to support the Vinland legend that Vikings reached farther south to the North America n continent. Historical considerations In England the Viking Age began dramatically on 8 June 793 ref name Swanton Swanton, Michael. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle , p. 57, n. 15. ref when Vikings destroyed the abbey on Lindisfarne , a centre of learning famous across the continent. Monks were killed in the abbey, thrown into the sea to drown or carried away as slave s along with the church treasures. Three Viking ships had beached in Portland Bay six years earlier, but that incursion may have been a trading expedition that went wrong rather than a piratical raid. Lindisfarne was different. The Viking devastation of Northumbria s Holy Island shocked and alerted the royal Courts of Europe. Never before has such an atrocity been seen, citation needed date October 2011 declared the Northumbrian scholar Alcuin of York . More than any other single event, the attack on Lindisfarne cast a shadow on the perception of the Vikings for the next twelve centuries. Not until the 1890s did scholars outside Scandinavia begin seriously to ... more details
This article is concerned with the History of Dublin between 795 and 902 CE and follows History of Dublin Earliest times to 795 . Image Ireland900.png right thumb 300px Ireland circa 900 The First Viking Age lasted from 795, when Viking raids on Irish settlements began, until 902, when the ruling Norse dynasty was expelled from Dublin. This period of Irish history is characterised by a series of conflicts involving the native Irish and two Viking factions that the Irish called Dubgaill and Finngaill . The fluctuating fortunes of these three groups and their shifting alliances, together with the inadequacy of contemporary records and the inaccuracy of later accounts, make this period one of the most complicated and least understood in the fledgling city s history. Early Viking raids Image Early Scandinavian Dublin North East.png right thumb Rathlin Island In the year 795 Vikings probably of Norway Norwegian origin raided islands off the coast of Ireland for the first time. ref AU 795.3 The burning of Rechru by the heathens.... AFM 790.6 795 . Rechru has been variously identified with Lambay Island , off the coast of Dublin, and Rathlin Island , off the northeast coast of Ireland. See Cite web author Donnchadh Corr in first Donnchadh last Corr in url http www.ucc.ie celt General 20Vikings 20in 20Ireland.pdf format pdf title General The Vikings in Ireland accessdate 21 December 2008 publisher CELT See also http www.archive.org details brutytywysogiong00cararich Brut y Tywysogion 795 , which supports the identification with Lambay. The dates given in the extant versions of the Annals of Ulster for the period from the late 5th century to 1013 are antedated by one year, events in this period being dated one year before they actually took place O Rahilly 1946 , p. 241 . These dates have been silently corrected in the present article and in the online version of the Annals of Ulster at http www.ucc.ie celt publishd.html CELT . Dates in the other annalistic sources cited ... more details
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