The Vikings [NO]

[crop.jpg|thumb|A Viking Age depiction from the Tjängvide image stone, on Gotland.The article [https://runeberg.org/nfci/0129.html Tjängvidestenen in Nordisk familjebok (1919).]]
'Vikings''' were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden),


who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.Roesdahl, pp. 9–22. They also voyaged as far as the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East, Greenland, and... meer