  Getting
through low hung clouds, solar beams are reflected in waters of
a fjord the North - one of the greatest of a fjord deeply run rocky
western coast of Norway. From well protected harbours similar
to these, vikings - soldiers and merchants - left in far campaigns
to change a course of the European history. " Water under impacts of
hundreds the oars piercing the becoming blue smooth surface Foamed ", - the poet of XI century
wrote.
Vikings
- so named all Scandinavians in VIII - XI centuries, sea wanderers and
the robbers directed horror on inhabitants of coast of the Europe, Asia and
Northern Africa.
The ships found during excavation, up
to depth of soul have touched Scandinavian archeologists. They well knew, that
all world around has remembered their ancestors as furious
soldiers-seafarers. However fragments of the ships served as
the incontestable certificate absolutely other and, perhaps, to
much more important historical role of vikings as peace businessmen, travellers,
pathbreakers.
On our site it is in detail told about these aggressive tribes,
them " never-ending campaigns behind riches glory ", rich, original
culture.
 Iskustvo violent force (Section: On traces of brave travellers) Having
passed for the rough, aggressive people which is not disdained neither robberies, nor
murders, vikings nevertheless extremely were
proud and admired bright, but surprisingly thin art in which have reached
unsurpassed heights. It is a question of the most complicated ornaments and patterns
with which they decorated the weapon, tools and other subjects
of daily use. Resolutely creations of the hands
handicraftsmen put patterns on all amazing slozhnosti-whether it be wooden
windvanes of the majestic Scandinavian ships, swords and fighting axes,
konskaja a harness, broshi with which and men and women pinned up the
long capes, walls of houses, monuments and, certainly vessels in which
stored gold both silver ornaments and other symbols of riches and
authority.
 The ships - an emblem of vikings (Section: Scandinavia up to vikings)
The stunned Europeans could not understand, that for the ships bring in their
harbour this horror. These ships appeared on horizon suddenly and
came nearer promptly, that time hardly sufficed local
residents to disappear. Small a deposit a flexible skeleton of courts allowed vikings
to drive literally on coast, and immediately on the
ground the fighting team was unloaded vopjashchaja. What for people were by these ships how they
could
cross the seas so skrytno and is skilful? For the majority of them the
sea was an integral part of life. From time immemorial inhabitants
of woody, mountainous northern edges processed the ground where it was
fertile, and rummaged around coasts, the rivers, fjords, lakes in searches of
a fish or trading partners.
 Rublennoe silver (Section: Klady left by vikings)
Influence of Scandinavians was so oshchutimym in Scotland and on isle
of Man, located in Irish sea, approximately halfway between
Ireland and England. The kept place names in these
places testify that here there were many Scandinavian
settlements. For example, from 126 villages on island Ljuis-one of
external Gebridskih ostrovov-110 have either cleanly
Scandinavian name, or its any similarity. Were not kept any written
documents which would allow to learn about a life of these immigrants first-hand.
Three hundred years of silence divide messages on the first attacks,
belonging a feather letopistsev 1Х centuries, and to retellings of events to
authors of the Icelandic sagas in end X of a century. From the point of view of archeologists,
however, the riches of a material fill a niche.
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