Viking+Age

The Viking Age spans the period between AD [|793] and [|1066] in Scandinavia and Britain, following the [|Germanic Iron Age] (and the [|Vendel Age] in Sweden). During this period, the Vikings, Scandinavian warriors and traders, raided and explored most parts of [|Europe], south-western Asia, northern Africa and north-eastern North America. Apart from exploring Europe by way of its oceans and rivers with the aid of their advanced navigational skills and extending their trading routes across vast parts of the continent, they also engaged in warfare and looted and enslaved numerous Christian communities of Medieval Europe for centuries, contributing to the development of feudal systems in Europe.