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Finland and the Vikings: Contact, commerce and conflict
Often overlooked as a peripheral edge of the Viking homelands, Finland played an important role in the history of the Viking Age. The relationship between people from Viking societies and the Finnic peoples was dominated by contact through commerce, conflict, and cultural exchange.11 months ago — History -
Vikings and the Silk Roads: Eastern adventures
We know that people from Viking societies were the early medieval period's great entrepreneurs conducting trade, plunder, and pillage across vast swathes of Europe and its surrounds. However, did they trade along the famous Silk Roads that connected East to West, linking Europe and Asia?2 years ago — Trade -
The importance of Viking trading towns: What we know
Although they have a somewhat unfair reputation as marauding barbarians, the Vikings were also responsible for reestablishing pan-European trade networks and routes that had not been used for centuries.5 years ago — Trade
