Quotulatiousness

April 2, 2018

Vikings – did they actually exist?

Filed under: Britain, Europe, History — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

Lindybeige
Published on 9 Oct 2015

The term ‘Viking’ is used inaccurately most of the time. Scandinavia was home to many Norse-speaking farmers, fishermen, carpenters, and cheese-makers, who spent between none and very little of their time carrying out sea raids.

Lindybeige: a channel of archaeology, ancient and medieval warfare, rants, swing dance, travelogues, evolution, and whatever else occurs to me to make.

Related posts:

  1. Casting swords in the movies – forging a lie
  2. Forests in the olden days
  3. Boarding Schools – what are they like?
  4. Crusader helmets
  5. Cannon loading in the eighteenth century

No Comments

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.

Powered by WordPress