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    Vikings bought a rich plethora of items and materials on their voyages, including wine, pottery, silk, silver, and spices.

    What did Vikings trade?
    Trade
    Viking trading towns, with their bustling markets and diverse goods, played a pivotal role in revitalizing and expanding the early medieval European economy.

    The importance of Viking trading towns: What we know
    Trade
    A runic inscription from Hedeby describes how Oddulfr traded Eyríkr an otter skin in exchange for a sword.

    An otter skin for a sword? Here's how exchange worked in the Viking Age
    Trade
    While raids and attacks on traders were commonplace, there was also a host of initiatives aimed at setting up a certain level of security for trade.

    Free trade in the Viking Age: Diplomacy and trade agreements
    Vikings bought a rich plethora of items and materials on their voyages, including wine, pottery, silk, silver, and spices.

    What did Vikings trade?

    Contrary to popular opinion, which portrays them as mere brutish wreckers and destroyers, the Vikings helped reestablish and reconnect early medieval Europe's trade networks to the broader world, something not done since the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
    Viking trading towns, with their bustling markets and diverse goods, played a pivotal role in revitalizing and expanding the early medieval European economy.

    The importance of Viking trading towns: What we know
    A runic inscription from Hedeby describes how Oddulfr traded Eyríkr an otter skin in exchange for a sword.

    An otter skin for a sword? Here's how exchange worked in the Viking Age
    While raids and attacks on traders were commonplace, there was also a host of initiatives aimed at setting up a certain level of security for trade.

    Free trade in the Viking Age: Diplomacy and trade agreements

    Viking trade
    Stone casting moulds from Viking Age Birka, including soapstone pieces, from the Swedish History Museum.

    Viking trade beyond treasure: Soapstone vessels, whetstones and the everyday economy

    Buried Viking treasure hordes may capture the imagination, but they did not fuel everyday life in Viking societies. We look beyond the spoils of pillage and plunder to the ordinary items that underpinned Viking life.

    Viking trade
    Stone casting moulds from Viking Age Birka, including soapstone pieces, from the Swedish History Museum.

    Viking trade beyond treasure: Soapstone vessels, whetstones and the everyday economy

    Buried Viking treasure hordes may capture the imagination, but they did not fuel everyday life in Viking societies. We look beyond the spoils of pillage and plunder to the ordinary items that underpinned Viking life.

    Viking trade

     Vikings bought a rich plethora of items and materials on their voyages, including wine, pottery, silk, silver, and spices.

    What did Vikings trade?

    Contrary to popular opinion, which portrays them as mere brutish wreckers and destroyers, the Vikings helped reestablish and reconnect early medieval Europe's trade networks to the broader world, something not done since the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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