Who are the Vikings?

 

The Vikings are a people of great fame because of their wars and their conquests, and they have roamed the world and have overtaken vast areas, in a way that no one preceded them until they have described them as having their campaigns spread from Western Europe to Central Asia.

Who are the “Vikings”?

                           


They are the Nordic Germanic peoples who have settled the northern regions of Europe and have been called “northerners” and mean the northerners and believe that the origins of the word “Viking” came from the word “Vick”, a small Gulf in the language of the northern regions. This name can also come from a region of Norway called “Viken” where Viking lived.
Some historians say that those people who were famous for riding the sea and piracy did not call themselves “the Vikings”, but this name was linked to them over the years. It did not appear in history books until their mid-afternoon during the tenth-century ad.

Religion and its beliefs in “the Vikings” … the Nordic myths and mythology

 

Viking mythology is one of the most exciting beliefs of all time, influenced the fields of art and fiction, and has inspired many authors, producers, musicians, painters, and other arts. A photographer for marvel comic supremo Thor, as well as written many songs about this mythology, and also in the field of games, many video games have been inspired by Nordic worlds such as World of Warcraft and also the game “God of War”.
The pre-Christian Viking religion was similar to that of other German tribes, where they sanctified a number of gods such as Odin, the Lord of Lords, the God of War, Wisdom, and Death, who blessed humanity with the alphabet, the leader of the Norwegian gods Thor, the God of Thunder, the God of Light, and the God of Light, and the beautiful goddess Freya. » The battles were raging to choose fighters, as well as the ski goddess Skadi, who was associated with revenge, as well as Neord, Freya, Aydon, Himdal, Frigg, Loki, and many other gods.

Viking language… Origin of modern languages

The Vikings speak a form of the ancient Nordian language, consisting of 16 straight-line characters, a language that influenced the creation of modern languages in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Iceland, as Icelandic is the closest language to the ancient Nordian language. It still exists.
One city in Sweden still speaks the old Nordiya called the town of Fadallen, and it was used as a written language in that city until 1950. Because of this, that city remained virtually cut off from the outside world until recently, enabling the culture of Vikings to survive.

The end of the story.

 The age of Viking ended after their last invasion led by Norwegian King “Harald III” in the battle of “Stamford Bridge” in 1066 in England, where it was defeated. Some also consider that the Vikings era in Scandinavia ended with the establishment of their governing authority and the recognition of Christianity as the dominant religion.

This date is estimated at the end of the 11th century in the three Scandinavian countries, and the end of the Vikings era in Norway was marked by the Battle of Stickly Stadium in 1030, and the loss of Olaf Haradson’s Army (Later known as Saint Olaf) this battle, Christianity, after his death, spread partly through the power of the miracle rumors and is no longer called the Norwegians by Viking.

After the Catholic Church became more prominent in Europe, the Vikings adapted to this religion, its norms, the systems of kings and the new ideals, leaving invasions and wars and lived in their land. The Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelanders and the Greenland people are still among them.

This concludes the story of the Vikings, who were famous for their poems in the wars that they were proclaiming in their planning, and witnessed their period of engineering, agricultural and qualitative lack in the field of navigation and ship making that wanes the seas for long distances to transport goods. It is carrying with it the first ambition of the simple Scandinavian peasant in a dignified life.