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  2. Viking expansion - Wikipedia

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    Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.

  3. Great Heathen Army - Wikipedia

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    The Great Heathen Army, [a] also known as the Viking Great Army, [1] was a coalition of Scandinavian warriors who invaded England in 865 AD.Since the late 8th century, the Vikings [b] had been engaging in raids on centres of wealth, such as monasteries.

  4. Viking raid warfare and tactics - Wikipedia

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    Viking swords were pattern welded and most commonly decorated with copper inlays and icons, featuring a fuller down the centre of the blade in order to reduce the weight of the blade; [71] a few single-bladed swords around a meter in length have been unearthed but the most commonly found swords in Viking graves are double-edged with blades ...

  5. Medieval weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    ^ In this and following weight units kg. and gr. mean technically kg-weight or gr-weight. ^ https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/arsin ^ a b Erkal, Mehmet (1991). Arşın, TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Cilt 3, s 411-413, İstanbul ^ Kâtip Çelebi (2007). Deniz Savaşları Hakkında Büyüklere Armağan (Tuhfetü’l-Kibar fi Estari’l-Bihar ...

  6. Siege of Paris (845) - Wikipedia

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    This was the first of a total of thirteen payments of so-called danegeld to Viking raiders by the Franks [1] (the term is not expressly known to have been used at this point). [12] While agreeing to withdraw from Paris, the Viking army pillaged several sites along the coast on the return voyage, including the Abbey of Saint Bertin. [8]

  7. Norway Vikings found to be much more violent than previously ...

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    The research points to “key differences” in the way violence, social hierarchies and authority influenced these dynamics in Denmark and Norway Viking societies.

  8. Viking ship - Wikipedia

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    Viking, the first Viking ship replica, was built by the Rødsverven shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway. In 1893 it sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition . There are a considerable number of modern reconstructions of Viking Age ships in service around Northern Europe and North America.

  9. Viking Therapeutics notches success with weight-loss drug ...

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    A 15-milligram dose of VK2735 helped patients lose up to 14.7% of their body weight on average in the study, which enrolled 176 overweight adults with at least one weight-related comorbidity.