Vikings served as personal bodyguards of the Byzantine emperors.
In the long ship, Vikings draw upon ages of boat building techniques and seafaring skills. There would have been no Vikings without the Viking ship, and it is that evolution of that technology that allowed them to make such a mark on history. In time they learned to make boats that were sea-worthy enough to travel the North Atlantic. This was really what would give the Vikings their long reach. You could put one these boats together in maybe a month, or six weeks, and this design was always exactly the same, and they would make the boat either as broad as they needed for calm waters, or as deep as they needed for open oceans, and if they wanted a boat to go up the rivers of Russia or in Europe, or a raiding boat that might go into the heart of the continent. They could make the same style, the same construction technique, but just a small version.
They were light enough to be carried over portages they could be dragged up rivers and they could be sailed, and that was one of the important features because the boats were swift like lightning, and there wasn't anything that could catch them. It's no longer a coastal vessel like many of the Mediterranean ones were. They would make the jump from Norway to Scotland and from the Faroe Islands to Iceland. From Iceland to Greenland over open waters that were far too dangerous for coastal vessels to ever take on, and the Vikings weren't frightened by this, and they had the technology to make it happen. The result, a boat with low draft and high adaptability, a technological marvel for its day.
No single King, or central government guides these people. Each Norse Village acts independently each declares its own king. The Vikings band together on this bold mission, leaving women and children behind, and taking to the seas. They’re after plunder, so the arm themselves accordingly. Among the first victims of their raiding are the monks of Lindisfarne along the coast of England in June 793. Home to Saint Catherine's Monastery. Lindisfarne is one of the holiest places in the British Isles, rich with piety and with more tangible treasures.
These monks, their bells are ringing, and they're going to mass, and up out of the sea comes these dragons, and the Vikings came on them just like a storm, and cut them down, carried off everything, and burned the place. The monks were met by ......., and they described it often as if death were unleashed on them.
The Vikings Were Warriors, there is no doubt, but they lived by intimidation, fear and terrorism. They were raiders, they weren’t soldiers. I think they were extremely fierce and extremely greedy, and extremely skillful. I mean we think of these people as being barbarians, but in fact I think the order of battle, the way in which they moved on a target in a very disciplined military way…
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The Viking warrior was a very simple war machine. It was a big, brawny Scandinavian often dressed in leather hide armor. Each person was equipped with very simple tools, a knife, a sword and a battle axe, and reportedly it was the battle axe that was fiercest of these weapons because the Vikings had tremendous skill in throwing these axes to lop off people's heads or incapacitate them.
The Monasteries along the coast particularly appealed to the Vikings because of their great accumulation of wealth, and the passivity of the monks. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle begun in the late 800's is the primary source of the history of England from the 5th to the 11th century. It records the terror brought by the Viking invaders. It reads: the ravages of heathen men miserably destroyed God's church on Lindisfarne with plunder and slaughter.
History marks this blasphemous attack on these monks and their treasures in 793 as a milestone, the first major Viking sea raid, but Lindisfarne and the other vulnerable monasteries along the coast of The British Isles are only the beginning. As the eighth century draws to a close, the Viking raiders set their sights on larger prizes. The major cities of Europe are about to feel the power and the fury of these Norsemen, and the deep bite of their steel.
The Vikings an age of conquest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xIy7FoiaQY
The Vikings were groups of warriors from Scandinavia who between the 8th and 11th centuries left their homes -in order to raid and settle in Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic –during a period known as "the Viking Age".
The Vikings were master seafarers. The unique design of their longships enabled them to use sails or oars; quickly change direction without turning around; sail up shallow rivers; perform beach landings; and carry the ship over portages
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The Vikings formed fearsome raiding parties under leaders with fearsome names such as: Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, Sweyn Forkbeard, Ragnar Hairy-Breeks, Harald Bluetooth.
The Vikings were pagans, which made the unprotected monasteries in Northern England and Scotland popular targets, and got Christian Europe quite upset.
(At a certain point), the Vikings ruled over most of England, they established settlements in Iceland, Greenland, Europe and for a short time in North America–some 500 years before Columbus reached its shores!
Vikings, who were known in East Europe as Rus –formed the basis for the kingdom of Rus-sia. In France, the Vikings who were known as Northmen established the Duchy of Normandy.
Eventually the Vikings assimilated into each of their destinations, and their relatives back home were Christianized.
By the 12th century, the “Viking Age” was over. The Vikings lived on, however, in the European imagination, both as destructive barbarians, and as romantic, noble savages.
Vikings 10 Interesting Facts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvH6IyS2nps
To viking means to go on an expedition overseas. A Vikings is a person who participates in such an expedition. Vikings were outstanding navigators in an era before the compass was invented. In some cases they'd release a raven which would fly towards land, and they would follow it. The raven banner was a Viking flag probably since ravens were associated with their one eyed pagan god Odin as well as blood, corpses and battle.
Vikings did not wear horned helmets in combat. If anything they used them ceremonially. Vikings loved their boats, in many cases they were buried in them, or in graves shaped like boats.
Vikings served as personal bodyguards of the Byzantine emperors.
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