While Europe slept in the daze of the Middle Ages, one man would break this silence forever. At the end of the 8th century AD, the Frankish Empire was descended to Scandinavia. Charlemagne conquers more and more territories and submits his people to Christianity. This is strongly against the sense of the northerners, where faith is accompanied by struggle and conquest. They therefore refuse to be submissive to the Franconian administration.
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In the same period, northern Europe is experiencing an expansion. The increase in large families and limited agricultural opportunities, especially in the colder north, make young men and women dream of the Western countries. In 793 a certain Ragnar Lothbrok decides to explore this route and ends up with his companions on the island of Lindisfarne. Searching for wealth, they find only poor acquisitions in Christian households. Soon he finds that this culture holds its treasures in the monastery, which is so completely robbed.

Knowing that there are opportunities to sail west, the door to Europe is wide open. The Europeans, intoxicated under pious Christianity, did not know what happened to them. They had not been aware of the naval force that has been developing in the north for hundreds of years. And that while the Normans had always rowed and traded worldwide. The seas knew no secrets from the people.

Now, more than 1200 years later, we remember the Vikings as furious men with striking helmets on. But they deserve a lot more credit.

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In 2013, the sagas of Ragnar Lothbrok and his companions were filmed in the series Vikings.


Wanderers

The warlike wanderers originally came from a part of modern Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Their people were called the Normans, but they soon got the name 'Vikings'. This is not a noun, but a verb: the Normans argued that restless spirits were going 'Vikings'. The latter means something like “robbery.”

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