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It began with the sacking of the monastery at Lindisfarne in 793 and ended in 1066, at the Battle of Stanford Bridge where King Harald Hardråde was killed. These two bloody events mark the opening and closing of an era in Nordic history which featured dramatic social change. The Viking Era.

The part of history know as the "Viking Age" is considered to have started in the year 793. This was the year of the first large Viking raid. It occurred at the monastery of Lindisfarne on the north-east coast of Britain.

Reasons and prelude to the Viking Age

At the beginning of the 6th century large changes took place in the Lake Mälar Area of Sweden Suddenly a Svea power appeared which was strong enough to wage war against the Gutar.

Piracy was all very well for yielding sporadic bursts of wealth but only trade could yield a regular income. The achievement of the Scandinavians as traders rather than raiders proved the more enduring

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"I'll give you this war club for that pin", or something on that level. "Smock" refers to an undergarment, the thing we in the Society might call a shirt if a man wore it and a chemise if a woman wore it. Assuming a culture was lived in that had laws, some way was needed to obtain the desired object without stealing it or killing it's owner. When mankind gained a more materialistic character he found that occasionally someone else had something that he wanted.

The Norse

What Europeans considered a "New World" was in fact home to Native people for over 15,000 years before the first Europeans landed on the eastern shores of North America. Accordingly, this work will use a variety of names for the body garment. We encourage you to read it all carefully before moving on to the other sites here. Around AD 1000, the medieval Norse (Vikings) established the first European settlement, on the northern coast of Newfoundland, but they only stayed for a brief period.

The Vikings

Vikings! The word conjures up image of wild, barbaric, sea faring men, intent on setting their mark on their less warlike neighbours with fire and sword. Vikings traded fish, timber, leather, swords, silver jewellery, combat ironing and so on.

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. This pattern would be followed until the guest of highest rank gave his gift on the last night of the feast.

Viking Pets

Norwegian Elkhound: Companion to the Vikings

Comrade to the Vikings, guardian of lonely farms and saeters, herder of flocks and defender from wolves and bear, a hunter always and roamer with hardy men, the Norwegian Elkhound comes down to us through more than six millennia with all his Nordic traits untainted, a fearless dog and friendly, devoted to man and the chase. From the land of ice and giants, they swept across Europe like a forest fire raping, pillaging and destroying all in their path.

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