How powerful are the Vikings in Europe? Where did the vikings go later?

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A solid shield wall, an unstoppable two-handed tomahawk and an elusive dragon boat were the three things that Vikings used to cross Europe. From Iceland in the west, the eastern European prairie in the east and Sicily in the south, there are Viking footprints. Viking conquest was not limited to plunder or destruction, but also included immigration and construction. Today, two European powers, Russia and Britain, are closely related to the Vikings.

William Conquest-Vikings Entering England

8- 10 century was the peak of Viking invasion of western Europe, and England and the West Frankish Kingdom suffered greatly. The vikings even established a huge colony in England. Until the 9th century, the British Alfred the Great contained the Viking invasion of Britain through war and negotiation. By the reign of his grandson Athelstan (AD1mid-20th century), the Vikings were basically expelled and Britain returned to Saxon rule.

The Vikings also ravaged the land of the West Frankish Kingdom on the other side of the English Channel. At the end of the 9th century, the Vikings besieged Paris for two years from 885 to 887. Although the soldiers and civilians in Paris finally held their homes, they still could not stop the Vikings from looting the areas on both sides of the Seine. Until AD 9 1 1, King Charles III of the West Franks ceded the land in Normandy, France to Lorenz, the Norman leader, and established the Normandy Principality to resist the looting of other vikings. The Viking disaster in West Frank gradually subsided.

/kloc-After the middle of the 0/0 century, the Vikings still plundered Britain and France, but the scale was far from before. For Britain and France, they can only be regarded as bandits on the border, not enemies of life and death. However, the Vikings recruited by France in Normandy (also known as Normans, meaning people from the north) are growing day by day. The Normandy Principality established by Luo Luo's descendants, although sworn allegiance to the French king, has a high degree of independence. In China's words, it is to listen to the letter and not listen to the tone.

The Vikings who settled in Normandy abandoned the traditional life of half-farming and half-plundering and became farmers of all sizes. The military system has also developed from the original loose tribal warrior system to the fief system with land as the core, which is also commonly known as the knight system. The vassals exchanged certain land by providing military services to the monarch. Riding has gradually replaced the traditional Viking walking mode. Axes have been replaced by swords and lances, and round shields have been replaced by A Zheng shields, which are more suitable for riding. Christianity also replaced the traditional Odin belief.

King Edward of England died in A.D. 1066. Edward himself had no children before his death, and Harold, a nobleman related to him by marriage, was identified as the heir. William, Duke of Normandy, who is also related to King Ed * * * *, made a false public will. He is the actual heir to King Ed * * * *. On September 28th, William's Norman army landed in England. 10 year128 October, 14 met Harold's army in Hastings, which leads to London, and a battle broke out (Harold was elected king of England at this time).

Harold, the main force of the British army is heavy infantry, with 7000 people deployed on the mountains. William's army has 5000 men, deployed at the foot of the mountain. Terrain and strength are against William. But William's Norman army was stronger than the British army. Norman troops broke the position of English troops with archers and cavalry, and Harold was killed on the spot. Since then, although there are still some forces against William in England, no one can shake William's position in England. On Christmas Day, the Archbishop crowned King William of England.

William's conquest was a watershed in British history. William the Viking brought the aristocratic system and feudal system on the European continent into England with the sound of cavalry hooves, which not only laid the political and cultural foundation of modern Britain, but also reintegrated the British Isles, which had been isolated from the European continent, into the European cultural circle.

Fur and Orthodox Church —— Founded by Vikings

The vikings not only expanded westward, but also the vast eastern European plain in the southeast of Scandinavia was an arena for the vikings. The vikings kept going south along the Volga and Dnieper rivers in their leading ships until they reached the Heihe River, which opened up the trade road from northern Europe to Constantinople.

Before the arrival of the Vikings, there were countless Slavic tribes living on the Great Plains of Eastern Europe. There is no unified regime or leadership among Slavs, only a loose tribal alliance. In the 6th century A.D., Avar khanate and Kossa khanate from grassland conquered Slavs in Eastern Europe successively. Eastern Europe and Slavic society at this time can be said to be a stagnant pool.

Beginning in the 9th century, more and more Vikings (also known as Russians) went south from Scandinavia and gradually conquered and controlled the local Slavic tribes. In 882, Oleg, the leader of the Russians, occupied Kiev, and based on this, established and expanded Kiev Ross. By the 10 century, Russia in Kiev was already a powerful country, reaching to the south Dutton River basin in Scandinavia in the north. In 94 1 year, Igor, the Grand Duke of Ross, even launched an expedition to Constantinople. Although it ended in failure like the siege of Paris, it won a trade contract with the Byzantine Empire, and the furs of northern Europe were continuously imported into the Mediterranean region through the Principality of Ross.

By the end of 10, Archduke Vladimir, like his compatriots in Western Europe, had converted to Christianity, which opened a thousand-year history of Slavs believing in the Orthodox Church.