The Viking period began in AD 793 with a raid on the monastery of Lindisfarne by pirates from Scandinavia. In the following centuries their swift sailing ships enabled them to attack the undefended coastal and river ports‚ towns and monasteries of western Europe and beyond in the search for wealth‚ slaves‚ and new lands to settle. The name Viking is generally applied to the Scandinavian peoples from the late eighth century until around AD 1100. They lived in a number of small kingdoms‚ but as their
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The word Viking‚ really means "Pirate" in Norse‚ is used as a term‚ for the people who lived in Denmark‚ Norway and Sweden during the early Middle Ages. They are most famous for the Viking raids of the Middle Ages and people often think of them as savage and bloodthirsty. Though many did have a life devoted to raiding and warfare‚ the vast majority of the Vikings lived from farming‚ fishing‚ and etc. Law The Vikings had a complex legal system. The word "law" is actually a Viking word. When
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adventure is the point in a person’s life when he or she is first given notice that everything is going to change‚ whether he or she knows it or not. Beowulf was raised by a king and was born a warrior figure. He then became the Leader of the Geats in Scandinavia. Beowulf set out to find monsters and slay them for glory of his people. On his journey‚ he encounters with 9 monsters and slays them all with no problem. He was told that there was a monster in Denmark that is causing chaos and goes to Denmark
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trees are often called softwoods with the notable exceptions being bald cypress and the larches. Softwood is the source of about 80% of the world’s production of timber‚ with traditional centers of production being the Baltic region (including Scandinavia and Russia) and North America and China. The term is opposed to hardwood‚ which is the wood from angiosperm trees. Softwoods are not necessarily softer than hardwoods. In both groups there is an enormous variation in actual wood hardness‚ with
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Virtues As long as there has been recognized sin in recorded history‚ there has been the virtuous equivalent by which good people live their lives. Before Christianity‚ there were the Pagan virtues‚ and when Christianity came into dominance in Scandinavia‚ it adopted these virtues and added several spiritual virtues of its own. Each virtue can be seen as a reflection of societal thought. The virtues tell how the ideal person lives their life‚ and this idea of the virtuous person is often reflected
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could see them today. Some contemporary semi-scholarly publications address rune magic‚ spells and divination directly (Thorsson 2012; Paxson 2005). The more one imagines from scholarly work the often rough lives of Vikings long separated from Scandinavia‚ the more one sees the open possibilities both of wishing to adhere to the old and of following what had changed over time‚ as second- or third-generation Viking migrants and colonists were not apt to recognize (Abrams 2012: 16-17). In light of
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The Viking Rus The Viking Rus In the early 9th century‚ the Rus‚ a group of Vikings from the modern-day area of Sweden (Logan 2005: 180-207)(etymonline.com)‚ became loosely organized under the Rus ’ Khaganate. The ruler of the Rus during their Anatolian expedition in 839 was called chaganus (i.e. Khaqan) (Golden 1982: 77-92). In 860‚ the Rus invaded the Byzantine Empire‚ and subsequently launched several wars with the Byzantine Empire and expeditions to the Caspian Sea. The early leaders of Rus
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Acid rain is a very big pollution problem in the world. It has killed fish and other aquatic life in many lakes and streams. It harms human health‚ disfigures monuments and erodes buildings‚ and‚ along with other pollutants‚ threatens forests. The story of acid rain can be compared to the plot of a science fiction movie. In the 1950s an invisible force begins to destroy lakes and rivers‚ killing trout and salmon. By the 1960s it is harming the waters of eastern Canada and the northeastern United
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raided the southern coasts of Europe‚ especially Italy‚ and even threatened Rome in 843. Vikings: by far the most devastating and far-reaching attacks of the time came from the Northmen or Norsemen of Scandinavia‚ also known to us as the Vikings. The Vikings were a Germanic people based in Scandinavia and constitute‚ in a sense‚ the final wave of Germanic migration. Why they moved is not very clear to historians. Two features of Viking society help explain what the Vikings accomplished. First of all
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about Hudson’s early life. Hudson was hired by the Muscovy Company in 1607‚ to find a waterway from Europe to Asia. Hudson made two trips (in 1607 and 1608)‚ but failed to find a route to China. In 1607‚ he sailed to Spitzbergen (an island north of Scandinavia in the Arctic Ocean) and discovered Jan Mayen Island (a tiny island off eastern Greenland). In 1608‚ he sailed to Novaya Zemlya (an island north of Russia in the Arctic Ocean). Hudson was then hired by the Dutch East India Company in 1609‚ to
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