Re:Vikings went to Mediterranean for ‘summer jobs’ as mercen...
by atchoo on Thursday February 23, 2023 @10:38AM
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Nova Anglia. Perhaps better to say "might have created settlements". There is a tantalising number of crumbs from place names to travellers reports but little written record. The alleged location would make them the first victims of the Mongolian invasion of Europe a few hundred years later.
Re:Vikings went to Mediterranean for ‘summer jobs’ as mercen...
by autophagian on Thursday February 23, 2023 @10:35AM
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I believe they're referring to Nīwe Englaland/New England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_(medieval)
Re:Vikings went to Mediterranean for ‘summer jobs’ as mercen...
by throwaway6734 on Thursday February 23, 2023 @10:18AM
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Timothy Snyder has a great set of lectures about the making of modern Ukraine and he goes into great detail about the impact the Vikings had in the creation of Rus and their interactions with the Byzantines
Re:Vikings went to Mediterranean for ‘summer jobs’ as mercen...
by clucas on Thursday February 23, 2023 @03:36PM
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I was about to recommend this series as well, really glad to see a fellow-traveller got there first!
Free, high-quality history content, can't recommend highly enough: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz...
Can you name something googlable or wikipediable so I can read more about this?