History of the Vikings the Research Paper

The raids led to the killing of so many people and even captured some youth and maidens who were forced to pack for them all that they had looted which included food stuffs and merchandize in their ships.

Vikings were inhuman in that they went ahead to attack the Christian churches and monasteries where they robbed them and even set the buildings on fire burning the innocent and peaceful villagers who didn't know what was happening. They would rape women at will and take their children as slaves.

At times they could pretend to be normal traders where they stopped to do trading but unfortunately they turned to be pirates without the other traders knowing because they could attend to their traders without discriminating but at the end they suffered hence fearing the Vikings. One notable Viking was the fierce 10th century warrior Eric the Red. He led many raids in Europe and was formidable in battle.

All the time that the Vikings came for war and to raid the people in Europe, they took all the people that survived death as slaves most of whom were Irish, Finns and Germans. But later on many of those slaves were voluntarily freed by their masters and this happened mostly after they accepted to be introduced as Christians where they even went ahead intermarrying.The Vikings worshipped many gods the chief god being Odin but as Christianity spread they embraced Christianity and prayed to Christ repenting their stealing ways.

The Europeans also feared the Vikings since they were always armed. The Vikings always moved with axes, bows and arrows. They never used to fight with one hand but used to fight with both hands which they swung their broad axes at their enemies hence chopping off their hands and heads while they protected themselves by carrying round wooden shields and covered their heads with helmets made of leather which made them secure.

After two centuries the Scandinavian countries were fed up with the Viking behaviors which were ruining their lives and therefore decided to get rid the Vikings. Scandinavian countries were tired of the wrath of the Vikings from other nations hence began a schemed and well calculated hunt fro the Vikings and made sure that they wiped out most of them.

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