Vikings And The Viking Age

The most essential key sources on the Vikings are the contemporary texts from Scandinavia and all of the regions where they were active. Writing in Latin letters was brought to Scandinavia along with Christianity, therefore there are very few native textual sources from Scandinavia before the late 11th and early 12th centuries. The Scandinavians did in fact write inscriptions in runes, but these are usually extremely short and methodic. Most current documentations consist of texts which have been written in Christian and Islamic societies outside of Scandinavia, often by the authors who had been damagingly affected by Viking activity. After all writings on the Vikings and the Viking Age can also be very crucial for understanding them and their