Were All Vikings Scandinavians
. The harbours and landing places used by Vikings in Scotland are set to be researched on a scale never been seen before. It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age.Raiding as a lifestyle was first established in Scandinavia by the 6th century as illustrated in the epic English tale of Beowulf. There is a misconception about how fast the Vikings were Christianized because they did not as some people think shift from believing in their old Gods to Christianity from one moment to another. One such theory suggests the Vikings who were pagan preyed on the monastic movement.
The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia but to any place significantly settled by.
Weaponry and tools were birthed from forges rather than made. Viking raids were a characteristic of the Scandinavian early medieval pirates called the Norse or Vikings particularly during the first 50 years of the Viking Age 793-850. In reality it took the Church centuries to convert the Scandinavians into this foreign Abrahamic religion. Another theory is that word got to the Scandinavians who were elsewhere in Europe that Irelands monasteries had great wealth.
