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For over 300 years, the Vikings ventured so fearlessly and so far from their homeland.
Viking raiders struck with shocking brutality. They sailed seas and rivers, attacking at leisure and filling their ships with plunder. They spread terror far and wide, and extorted western Europe. They expanded raids into warfare, as they conquered kingdoms, leaving bodies to rot in the fields. Behind the mayhem began around A.D. 750 was a turmoil that made the medieval farmers become the scourge of Europe.
Meteorites strike and volcanic eruption combined blasted a vast cloud of dust into the atmosphere. It darkened the sun, lowering summer temperatures for 14 years.
The extended cold and darkness brought death and ruin to Scandinavia. Villages were abandoned; residents succumbed to starvation and fighting.
Scandinavian society assumed a new, more truculent and weaponized form. In this real-life Game of Thrones, men and women alike celebrated the virtues of warfare—fearlessness, aggression, cunning, strength under fire.
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