What is the Viking Age?

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The Viking Age is often described as the period of time between the first recorded Viking raid on the monastery of Lindisfarne in 793 to the Battle of Hastings in 1066, but this is too arbitrary. It's like talking about a tree by starting from the ground level up while ignoring the roots and the forest around it. In this website, we will endeavour to talk about the whole forest. We will delve into the dark recesses of Scandinavian history to explore the origins of the Vikings, who they were, how they influenced the world around them, and how the world that came after them bore their finger prints.