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Farming
Farming during the Viking Age was predominantly based on animal husbandry, and the villages moved within their surrounding area at intervals of some hundreds of years.
These moves ceased in the centuries after the Viking Age, and it was only then, in connection with a transition to grain cultivation which entailed extensive land clearing, that the division of the large farms into smaller plots began.
This led to the creation of many new settlements with names ending in -torp (now -rup, -drup, -trup and -strup), -rød, etc., names which are still found on the map of Denmark today.
Niels Lund, Gyldendal Leksikon
The Viking Age
Throughout its early history, Denmark had many contacts with the outside world, but with the beginning of the Viking Age, c. 750 AD, the country really became part of European history.
