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Vikings: North America
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The Viking’s dramatic western expansion across the North Atlantic is still poorly understood. What made them leave their homelands? How did they navigate the North Atlantic? When and why did the Viking settlements in Greenland die out? Where in North America did the Vikings travel?
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The first place the Vikings attacked in Britain was the monastery at Lindisfarne, a holy island situated off the Northumberland coast in the north east of England. A few years later the island of Iona (off the west coast of Scotland), came under attack and its monks were slaughtered.
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Ever since the Vikings began to sail across the North Sea and even the Atlantic about 1,000 years ago, the Scandinavians have been great travellers. Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland might have small populations but they are very wealthy, which means a strong outbound market but an inbound market constrained to some extent by high prices.
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The Vikings were a great influence from Asia to America for about 200 years. So who were these people of the North and why did they make such an impact on their surrounding?
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The Vikings reached south to North Africa and east to Russia and Constantinople, as looters, traders, or mercenaries. Vikings under Leif Eriksson, heir to Erik the Red, reached North America, and set up a short lived settlement in present-day L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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The Vikings ... attacked settlements along the coasts and rivers of Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and France. The area they settled in France became known as Normandy, meaning land of the Northmen
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