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The Viking Expeditions
A copy of the Viking ship Helge Ask, a small warship from around 1040. This ship was one of five different vessels found and excavated in Roskilde Fjord in 1957-1962
The Viking expeditions which, from c. 800, made the Scandinavians known and feared in large parts of Europe, varied from war between states to interference in each other’s affairs and coastal raids.
The expeditions were previously thought to have been connected with mass emigration from Scandinavia, but it is now believed that the armies numbered in the hundreds rather than in the thousands and that they were primarily interested in pillage, even though a number of them ended up settling in England and Normandy.
Niels Lund, Gyldendal Leksikon
The Frankish Empire, England & Ireland
From around 830, internal strife in the Frankish empire allowed Danish chieftains, who were often exiled members of the Danish royal family, to demand tributes from the Franks.
