HIST 025 Lecture 32: Hist 025 - LEC32
6 Oct 2020
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Beaduheard, reeve of the king of wessex, leads a group of men to meet them, thinking they are traders. 794 monasteries of jarrow and iona on britain"s northern coast. Scandinavians who greatly influenced northern europe and beyond. Settled as farmers in iceland, greenland and vikings. Best clue viking age begins less than a decade after charlemagne conquers the. Sea-worthy in the baltic and north sea. Shallow draft could sail for upriver. Long-range seemed to appear from nowhere. Frightening dragon heads attacked from the mists terrifying. Unit of organization for the viking fleet a levy for two or three summer months on all free men only a few ships/leidangs would take part in raids. Vikings lands were divided into districts or ship"s crews the farmers of district had to build and equip one longship. Also serve as militia when under attack. Later, kings such as canule, would call up large numbers of leidangs for territorial conquests.
