The Vikings' raider reputation is partly an archive effect: a violent minority attacked monasteries, and literate monks preserved the hostile memory.
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Viking Raids
The Vikings' raider reputation is partly an archive effect: a violent minority attacked monasteries, and literate monks preserved the hostile memory.
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"...of the Viking expansion. And the yellow are written records, documented Viking raids in Europe. And as you can see, there's a lot of..."
"they would come in, and they would take these books, the Bible, rip out the pages, and keep the gold, and then leave. Okay?..."
"...when there was the first recorded, written down, incident of a Viking raid on a monastery in Europe. And this is really the first,..."
"...Age. So what's important for us to understand is that these Viking raids would drive population growth in Scandinavia, and then this would drive..."
"...had is, well, why didn't the Europeans adapt themselves to these Viking raids? Some did, okay, but most didn't. And the reason why is..."
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