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A 4 page review of P. Sawyer's "Age of Vikings" -- a book describing the activities of Viking people. The Vikings were Nordic people including but not limited to Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians, who ranged abroad during a period of dynamic Scandinavian expansion in the Middle Ages, from about the year 800 A.D. until 1100 A.D. Sawyer is particularly concerned with presenting the contributions & accomplishments of the Viking people over the centuries. No other sources cited.
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expansion in the Middle Ages, from about the year 800 A.D. until 1100 A.D. Called the Viking Age by many (and apparently the reason for the books title--),
the period has long been popularly associated with unbridled piracy, when freebooters came swarming out of the northlands in their predatory long ships to burn and pillage their way across
civilized Europe. I learned from Sawyer, however, that this is somewhat of a gross simplification. He suggests that the achievements of the Viking Age should often be recognized in terms
of Scandinavian art and craftsmanship, marine technology, exploration, and the development of commerce-the Vikings as traders, not raiders. In one early section of the book, Sawyer
discusses how the derivation of the word Viking is disputed; some have said that it might be from the Old Norse word "v?k," meaning a bay or a creek or
perhaps from the Old English term "wic," which meant a fortified trade settlement. Sawyer makes sure to note that not every Scandinavian, was a professional warrior or Viking, and
not every Viking was a pirate. The motive causes of Viking Age expansion are complex and are explained in pieces throughout the book. The most essential seems to
be land shortage in Scandinavia, improved iron production, and the need for new markets all of which played a big part in the Viking Age.
Sawyers book does provide a good chronological history. The first recorded Viking raid was a seaborne assault in 793 by Norwegian thieves on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, just
off the northeast shoulder of England. The author suggests, however, that considerable overseas Viking migration, west across the North Sea and east across the Baltic, might have occurred long
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