The Vikings were people who came from three countries of Scandinavia: Denmark, Norway and Sweden. They also known as the Norse people. Vikings were people who mostly worked as farmers but some other worked as craftsmen or traders.
Vikings were people who sailed all over Europe and North Atlantic Ocean in their long ships. The Viking age began about 1,200 years ago in the 18 century AD and lasted for 300 years.
Vikings lived on farms. Their houses were built out of wood, stones or blocks of turf with thatched on turf roofs.
The men worked on farms as craftsmen of traders. They handled boats for fishing in order to feed there family. Sometimes man had to fight to protect there family or to support his king.
Women did all the household jobs. They often helped on the farm with milking cows and making cheese.
The children did not attend school they would stay home and help with the household chores and the farming. They learned history, religion and the law from stories. The Viking children became adults at the age of 15 or 16.
The women would throw big feasts that would last over a week for their weddings, funerals, and religion festival.
On June 8th 793 a group called the Norsmen attacked on the islands Lindesfarne, just off the east coast. It was known for the first recorded attack by the Norse on England. Over the past few decades other monasteries in England, Scotland and Ireland would also be attacked and looted, but this wasn't any attack the Lindesfarn attachs were diffrent. Many of defenseless monks,priest and nuns were either killed or captured as slaves and gold, silver and religious treasures.
Up until 793, the vikings had not strayed too far from thier own cummunities along the coast of Norway, Denmark and Sweden.
Some historians think the Vikings belived stealing the wealth of othere become rich was easier then working for it themselves. Many young men who wanted their own land moved and settled in areas the Vikings had conquered.
The vikings supported themselves. For most vikings, the resources they needed to survive came not from pillaging, but from the seas, the fields and the forests around them. The vikings were also Explorers, they rowed sand sailed the rivers of eastren Europe the lea to the Black Sea and the Middle East. By the end of the first millennium they had even reached and set up at least one camp in the North America, some five hundred years before Christopher Columbus's arrival in 1492.
The vikings developed strong religious beliefs based on a series of gods not unlike those of ancient Rome and Greece. Lacking the ability to write literature, this religion and the myths associated with it, were passed down from on generation to the next through storytelling. It wasn't until the thirteenth century that many of thier myths were recorded in print.
In their travels, the Vikings encountered many cultured and lifestyles. When they returned home, they adopted some of these ideas and used them to shape and reshape thier own society. One of the greatest influences on them was christianity. By the end of the viking Age, most of thier pagan beliefs were replaced with Chritianity ones.
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Viking timeline
In 820 thirteen ships of the Vikings had reached the Seine Bay, the Vikings were then forced to land and face the shore guard, after being there awhile they were forced to re-embark and leave five of their number dead on Neustrian shore.
Then later on in 841 Asgeir fleets many ships to sail up the River Seine, he then takes the city of Rouen and had it burnt down, the loot their was enormous. Aesgeir’s then has his army plunder and burn the rich Jumiege monastery, later on they assaulted and held ransom to a nearby monastery of Fontenelle. In this expedition there were sixty-eight captive were taken and then they were returned by payment of a ransom by monks of Saint-Denis.
In 845 Ranger who lead a group of Vikings for this time sent 120 ships to sail up the Seine and besieges Paris. Charles the Bald then ends up paying 7000 livres to spare Paris.
Asgeir and his force raid on foot in the Beauvais region in 852 from their base in Rouen. Occupied by a Frankish army they would have to withdraw from their camp for the winter on Jeufosse Island, they then were to secure and control the entrance to the Seine; they stayed up there until the 5th of June.
Then in 855 Sigtrygg had returned to try and destroy a Frankish fort that was located on the Seine shore on the approach of Paris. The two armies (Frankish and Bjorn) came together to take out a raid in the south of Seine, which could have happened as far as Chartres, they were then stopped by the Frankish army of Charles the Bald, with that happening they had to withdraw to the Seine after heavy losses.
Jeufosse, in 857 had become the main base for the Vikings, Sigtrygg’s and Bjorn’s armies again attacked Paris, many of the people were slaughtered and then that summer had attacked Evreux. Finally after having this all this happen Sigtrygg retired with his men.
With the retirement of Sigtrygg, Bjorn had joined a new group of Danes, led by Hasting, this happened in 858. They went into the abbey of Fontenelle and had the area burnt down. Since the Danes and Bjorn had such power and force, Bjorn went and surrounded Paris and demanded a ransom if the Parisian monasteries.
In 859 the attacks that happened to the Seine Bay had doubled. One leader Charles the Bald had gotten engaged, so the Vikings had taken advantage of this situation to attack freely far from their base.
In 860 one of the Viking chiefs, Veland, was paid 3000 silver livres by Charles the Bald to try to drive out the Vikings of the lower Seine.
Veland ends up besieging Jeufosse Island in May of 861, while leading 200 Viking ships. For the Vikings of Jeufosse they would have to retire from the Seine, with only 100 ships. Charles the Bald then built forts to control the Seine at Pont-de-l’Arche.
In 876 the Vikings had a 100 new Viking ships that made an incursion into the Seine. They then sailed away again after being paid 5000 livres by Charles the Bald.
A huge fleet sailed up to Seine; they could have taken up to 700 ships to besiege Paris, heavy losses ended being severe on both sides in 885.
From 887-911 Rolf (Rollo/Rollon) imposed himself as the new chief of the Vikings who now had settled in the lower Seine region. The Franks then pushed up to the doors of the Ile-de-France.
911- Seeking to block the lower Seine, which had become a real “motorway” for the Viking invasions of the Kingdom of Frankia, the new king, Charles the Simple concludes an agreement with Rolf at Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, conceding to him the suzerainty of the territory of the lower Seine which, de facto, Rolf had already had for several years.
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