Battle Of The Vikings Essay

In the year of 800 A.D the Vikings attacked Paris and the only way to make them stop was the price of 5,670 lbs of silver and gold. The viking that led the sack of Paris was a Norse chieftain named Reginherus. This event happened years ago but is still relevant to today because the Vikings failed to capture the city, which made them attack three times instead of a hit and run or a battle. Most of the reason the Vikings kept attacking Paris, was that Paris bribed the Vikings every time they attacked and of course the Vikings took the bribe. The name ‘Vikings’ means ‘a pirate raid’ in the Old Norse language.They are famous for trading with other countries and sailing huge distances from their home in Scandinavia:( known as Denmark, Norway and Sweden nowadays) between the year of 800 and 1066 A.D.. their raids were dreading and longevity. Vikings were also explorers and skilled seafarers, they managed to spread across Europe and east into Asia, south, to northern Africa, and as far west as Newfoundland. They established trade routes across the known world and settled in northern Britain, Ireland and among the Franks, forming the Kievan Rūs kingdom on the River Volga. Viking life is …show more content…
Around the year of 1066 is the last time the Viking were mentioned, people started to guess that they died out in that year. At the Battle of Stamford Bridge, the Norwegian king Haraldr harðráði was execrable and killed as he tried to reclaim a portion of England making it the last major Viking incursion into Europe. It was no longer profitable or desirable to raid. The Vikings weren't conquered. Because there were fewer and fewer raids, to the rest of Europe they became, not Vikings, but Danes and Swedes and Norwegians and Icelanders and Greenlanders. If you ever want to see a body of a Viking look under their ships because the Vikings loved their boats so much that they buried people to honor