What’s the farthest place the Vikings reached?
By Victoria Atkinson The Vikings reached as far west as Newfoundland, but did they also venture into Africa, the Middle East and Asia? In less than 300 years, the Vikings raided and explored land in at least four continents, spreading out in every direction from Scandinavia to invade and trade with civilizations across Europe and beyond.…
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Viking Age Iceland: The Flexibility of the Goði-Thingman Relationship
This is 89 of our ongoing series about Viking Age Iceland. For centuries, this island country, unique in Medieval Europe, operated with no king, no great lords, no foreign policy, and no defense forces but which developed legal and judicial systems to limit the violence of bloodfeud and protect the rights of freemen. Far out in the North Atlantic, Iceland was where the…
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