Hello! Im interested in the Vikings, not the sports team but the people on the ships, I just dont know anything about them other then they wore cool looking hats
I don't know a lot about them . they were at sea for extended periods for explorations and merchantile activities in Russian and the North atlantic areas
Oh okay thats interesting. Didnt they raid places too? Like in fairytales they are depicted as big burly men, surely they did more then just trade at sea right
I guess. The term viking is about home communities  during the Viking Age mostly
Oh okay. How long were the vikings around for?
From the eigth century to the eleventh in Scandinavian history after the Germanic Iron Age I believe
Oh wow thats  awhile! What kind of ships did they sail on?
They had advance sailing and navigational skill and sailed in the Meditteranean, North Africa , Asia I think.
Thats amazing. I wonder how they got any sense of direction because it was long before technology
I know they settled in very diverse areas of Europe