Viking Age
Proper noun
Meaning
the Viking Age
(historical) In European history, especially Scandinavian history, the period spanning the late 8th to 11th centuries, when the Scandinavian Norsemen explored Europe for trade and conquest.
Examples
A work through which players immerse themselves in the Viking Age in the middle of the dark age.
Excavations at Flaxengate reveal that this area, deserted since Roman times, received new timber-framed buildings fronting a new street system in about 900. Richard Hall, Viking Age Archaeology (series Shire Archaeology) 2010:23.
ISBN 1-84158-596-3 * This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : citation Further reading * Batey, C.E. et al (eds.) (1995) The Viking Age in Caithness, Orkney and the North Atlantic.
As a result, there is much more material from the Viking Age concerning Norway than Sweden, which apart from many runic inscriptions, has almost no written sources from the early Middle Ages.
In the area that is now Sweden, cremations were predominant; in Denmark burial was more common; and in Norway both were common. citation Viking barrows are one of the primary source of evidence for circumstances in the Viking Age.
Gwyn Jones notes that "no true town has been found and excavated" and that the identification of the site in Elbląg with Truso is based on "finds of Norse weapons" and the presence of "a large Viking Age cemetery" nearby, Gwyn Jones.